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[Social psychiatry and psychoanalysis - "immature, jostling and rivaling siblings"?]
Georg Schomerus1, Sabine Heitmann, Steffi G Riedel-Heller
1Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie, Universität Leipzig. georg.schomerus@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
Aim:
We want to determine the influence of psychoanalysis on social psychiatry today and 30 years ago.
Method:
Systematic analyses of all articles appearing in Psychiatrische Praxis in 1974, 1975, 2004, and 2005.
Results:
While almost one in five articles referred to psychoanalysis or Freud 30 years ago, currently this hardly occurs at all.
Conclusion:
The social-scientific claims of psychoanalysis often heard in the 1970 s play no role in current social psychiatry. Psychoanalysis is also losing significance as a method of social psychiatric patient care.
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