CME INDIA Presentation by ⚜ Dr. M. Gowri Sankar, MD, Senior Assistant Professor, Dept. of General Medicine, Government Medical College and ESI Hospital, Coimbatore.
Today’s History Feature:
Prof. Dr. Sigmund Freud
(May 6, 1856 – Sep 23, 1939)
💠Austrian Neurologist & Psychiatrist
💠Father of Psychoanalysis
His contributions…
🔹Freud was recognized as one of the most influential thinkers of early 20th century.
🔹During the 3rd year of his medical studies, he started his research in nervous system. Then, graduated from University of Vienna in 1881.
🔹Basically, he was a versatile reader of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy and was influenced by Charles Darwin’s “New Theory of Evolution.” Also, he loved reading William Shakespeare in original English.
🔹Initially, he worked in various departments and started his career by publishing Aphasia Monograph in 1891, wherein he coined the word Agnosia.
🔹In fact, he was an early researcher of cerebral palsy and revealed that it was a brain disease, which normally affects the children before birth.
🔹Subsequently, he coined the term Psychoanalysis in 1896. By this new scientific method, he focussed the treatment of mental disorders by dealing with the mind and with mental illness.
🔹In the year 1902, he became a Professor in Vienna University. His new theory of psychology created range of followers and formalized as Vienna Psychoanalytic Society in 1908.
🔹Actually, he aimed to establish Scientific Psychology, which led him to start publishing the studies on self-analysis entitled as:
🔅Studies in hysteria (1895).
🔅The interpretation of dreams (1900).
🔅The Psychopathology of every day’s life (1901).
🔅Jokes and their relation to the unconscious (1905).
🔅Three essays on the theory of sexuality (1905).
🔅Fragments of an analysis of a case of hysteria (1905).
🔅The ego and the id (1923).
🔅Civilization and its discontents (1930).
🔅Moses and Monotheism (1939).
🔹His ground breaking work in Psychology includes the following…
🔅Structure of Personality consists of three parts – Id, ego and superego.
🔅Stages of Psychosexual development.
🔅The conscious and unconscious mind.
🔅Life and death instinct.
🔅Defence mechanism.
🔹The above are the Drops in Freud’s Ocean.
🔹Throughout the 20th century, many Freudian hypothesis were the most influential academic concepts and contributed to the growth of Psychology.
A Day to Commemorate…
An Influential Thinker
Prof. Dr. Sigmund Freud 🙏🏼
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Multifaceted personality with significant contribution to modern medicine.
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