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Psychoanalytic Contributions to Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy: Freud's Structural Hypothesis
1Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Abstract:
Psychoanalysis has long lost its historical influence on U.S. academic psychiatry. Psychoanalytic theory, however, provides us with a rich and remarkably comprehensive knowledge of human development, both normative and pathologic. This article describes a psychoanalytic concept that enriches our understanding of the mind and its disorders: Freud's structural hypothesis. This core concept provides a theoretical foundation for understanding the clinical features of both neurotic and personality disorders. It also informs a psychodynamic psychotherapy.
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