Neurosis

Logotherapy is a term derived from “logos,” a Greek word that translates as “meaning,” and therapy, which is defined as treatment of a condition, illness, or maladjustment. Logotherapy was developed by neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl. He, in his book man, search for meaning has outlined as for how his theory helped him to get through the time at Nazis concentration camps and how his this experience later developed and reinforced and strengthened his theories. This therapy not only…

Effects on the Psyche Caused by the Civilization When one considers the term “civilization”, a term that usually does not come to mind is “psyche”. These two terms seem to have nothing in common with each other, however, that is only if you think about trying to find similarities in them. What one should do is consider how these two terms relate to each other. Many people do not realize that, every day, we are affected by civilization around us. The culture, the social norms, and the people…

where they exert an inuence on the conscious mind. Sometimes, this inuence manifests just as dreams or slip of tongue but other times it can lead to dysfunctional behavior characteristic of neurosis. This neurosis can manifest in forms of phobias, hysterical paralysis, paranoia, etc. People suering from neurosis are classied as pathological and separated from the rest of the society. Therefore, we can see the usage of dividing practices for objectication of subject as the people labeled…

Psychologist Karen Horney once said, “The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men,” (Karen Horney Quotes). She was Psychoanalyst with many contributions to psychology. She is best known for her work in Feminine Psychology, her Theory of Neurotic Needs, and for her involvement in Neo-Freudian Psychology, (Cherry). She was born on September 16th, in 1885 in Germany, in a village outside of Hamburg, to Clotilde and Berndt Danielson. Her…

Karen Danielson was born on September 16, 1885 to Berndt Wackels Danielson and Clotilde née van Ronzelen in Blankenese, Germany. At the age of nine, Karen developed a crush on one of her older brothers who soon pushed her away leading her to begin suffering from depression effecting her for the rest of her life. After her mother left her father, Karen entered medical school at University of Freiburg, she transferred to one other school before graduating from University of Berlin in 1913. She…

period following times of emotional distress, creating a time of “infantile neurosis.” This then calls into question the circumstances of Hamlet’s childhood. He seems to revere his father in the play, “A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man” (3.4.70-73). Perhaps a forgotten incident in his youth may have created a period of extended infantile neurosis, which is not out of character for Hamlet when one considers his mental…

wrote about the stages of human life. Thanks to this we can trace the stages of madness. At the time, madness was also called "neurosis". Madness or neurosis is the state of being mentally ill, especially severely. Both of them were concerned with crisis situations, personal crisis and emergency of problems and the processes of how these problems emerge. Madness or neurosis was defined as a state of problems and a state of overthinking. This essay addresses similarities and differences in the…

psychoanalysis” (Funder, 2016). Horney’s theory gives a great definition of neurosis by allowing us to have a different view of a neurosis. During Horney’s clinical experience she addressed ten particular patterns of a neurotic needs. Neurotic behavior in the 20th century has been known to describe a broad category of conditions that is associated with poor functioning. Horney’s had different ways of looking at neurosis in terms of self-image, that contribute to a person’s…

“It is difficult for grown-up persons, unless perchance helped by a hateful memory of their own terrors in childhood, to realise the terrible agonies of fright and anguish, which seize some nervous children when they are alone in the dark, or are left by themselves in a large room, or have to pass a room or closet of which they have conceived some formless dread, or are sent alone on a strange errand” was a quote adapted from “The Pathology of Mind: a Study of its Distempers, Deformities, and…

whenever he walked to school or began to work on homework. He continued to have these fainting spells until he overheard his father speaking about his son’s ability to care for himself financially as an adult hat caused him to break through his ‘neurosis’ and concur his difficulties with school and school…