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| shawnsmith |
Posted - 03/25/2008 : 06:04:22
THE NORMAL PERSONALITY: A New Way of Thinking About People
by STEVEN REISS
Freud is dead, but psychoanalysis is not. His practice of probing patients for unconscious factors has been criticized for making sexual or aggressive desires appear stronger than they are in reality. Here, Reiss takes the criticism one step farther by arguing that the diagnoses of personality disorders, as well as the role of the unconscious, is not well grounded. In a time when children, and even house hold pets, swallow Prozac, Reiss revives a neglected diagnosis for worrywarts, wallflowers, daydreamers, pessimists, and eccentrics alike: normal. He broadens normality by outlining how abnormal behaviors can arise when life motives are obstructed or personal values contradicted. Reiss lists how various combinations of 16 basic desires lead to dilemmas that eventually bring people to counseling. He offers a way to manage personal problems, without cracking the medicine cabinet or the skeleton closet. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008, 201 p., hardcover, $26.00. |
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| mk6283 |
Posted - 03/25/2008 : 10:20:11
Freud got too immersed in all of his sex theories and, unfortunately, that is a major contributing factor in why he fell out of favor with so many in the medical profession (well that and the discovery of DNA). Even Dr. Sarno admits that Freud's sex detour was unfortunate in that respect. However, his work on the unconscious, in my opinion, is still revolutionary and of extreme importance to us all. The efforts to dissociate it from the rest of the TMS theory, as occurs occasionally on this forum, is, again in my opinion, the wrong thing to do.
Best,
MK |
| Big Rob |
Posted - 03/25/2008 : 06:49:44
I always though Freud spent too long thinking about sex. 
Albert Ellis was the guy who founded CBT and effectively debunked some of what Freud said.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ellis
Although I still think he valued Freud's concept of the unconscious. |
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