Posted: Dec 21, 2017 10:05 am
Keep It Real wrote:
I think this is true of the Tavistock, but the 'recent advances' also include figures such as Winnicott, Bowlby, and Fairbairn. But post-Freudian psychoanalysis made a big shift to object relations, although Freud sketched this out in his work on mourning. Was it you who mentioned Horney, as I think she started to correct Freud's emphasis on female envy, and pointed out for example, that some men envy women, including their bodies. If my memory is correct, Freud basically blanked this out.
But there have been a number of fusions in psychotherapy, so that we get for example the phenomenon of 'Kleinian Jungians', and many training courses have some psychoanalytic component. However, I couldn't say whether that means neat Freud, or the post-Freudians, probably both.
I don't know if you know this fal but my mother is a retired child psychoanalytical psychotherapist working for the NHS. Her training involved the compulsory in-depth study Sigmund's work; as well as the more recent advances in the field by Anna and Melanie Klein; amongst others (and I bet they too got loads wrong but still...). AFAIK psychoanalytical psychotherapy is still the first line NHS treatment for psychologically troubled children in England.
I think this is true of the Tavistock, but the 'recent advances' also include figures such as Winnicott, Bowlby, and Fairbairn. But post-Freudian psychoanalysis made a big shift to object relations, although Freud sketched this out in his work on mourning. Was it you who mentioned Horney, as I think she started to correct Freud's emphasis on female envy, and pointed out for example, that some men envy women, including their bodies. If my memory is correct, Freud basically blanked this out.
But there have been a number of fusions in psychotherapy, so that we get for example the phenomenon of 'Kleinian Jungians', and many training courses have some psychoanalytic component. However, I couldn't say whether that means neat Freud, or the post-Freudians, probably both.