Posted by Squiggles on November 5, 2004, at 8:28:11
In reply to Re: Psychiatry should be replaced with neurology, posted by SLS on November 5, 2004, at 7:49:55
> The irony is that neurology was once replaced by psychiatry. Sigmund Freud started out his medical career as a neurologist interested in treating mental illness with drugs. He later abandoned this in favor of developing his model of psychoanalaysis.
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There's so much literature on him on the net;
there was a time when i was a young student
in psychology, when i read a lot of his stuff.
I knew all about his ego, id, superego theories
and tried to apply it to my life and others';
i knew of his influences and had the Jung book
on Symbols and other psychoanalytic stuff,
including, influences on fine art. I was
really immersed in the stuff.But at that time I was not ill. So, it was
like a hobby.Later i became more interested in biological
psychology and especially, in the study of
perception.My present assessment of him is that he did
succeed in isolating mental and emotional
illness from medicine. I think he placed in
the sphere of anthropology at least, and
mythology at most.It would be interesting to see if there are
any links between his neurology studies and
later symbolism. I think not, but i have not
found any such links, except the sexual appetite
(libido) connected to the will - very Victorian
stuff.
Squiggles
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