Ferenczi's trauma theory

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Sandor Ferenczi believed that traumatic events threaten a person's security and cannot be predicted or controlled. Trauma fragments an individual's personality and prevents a person from living life spontaneously. Ferenczi worked with war victims, victims of child abuse, and others who experienced trauma. His theories, developed between 1916 and his death in 1933, were ahead of his time and are being incorporated into modern psychoanalysis.

Influence, Ferenczi, Sandor

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Psychoanalysis and the model of homosexuality as psychopathology: a historical overview

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Post-Freudian psychoanalysis created a pathological model of homosexuality based on assumptions of normative sexual development in childhood. Homosexual tendencies were supposed to be the result of a derailment of this development, and was considered to be especially serious if it occurred before the child reached age five. Homosexuality was also supposed to be a form of narcissism.

Psychological aspects, Models, Homosexuality, Psychology, Pathological, Psychopathology

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"I've been robbed"!: breaking the silence in 'Silas Marner'

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This article examines elements of trauma and mastery in George Eliot's novel 'Silas Marner'. The author views George Eliot's work as cathartic, the character Silas is allowed a reconnection with the trauma of his childhood in order to reduce the mastery in his life and rediscover himself, a process duplicated by the engaged reader.

United States, Criticism and interpretation, Self-confidence, Self confidence, Self realization, Self-actualization (Psychology), Eliot, George

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