What was Freud's view on Religion?
Look at this site http://www.braungardt.com/Essays/Freud's%20view%20of%20Religion.htm
What is the Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)?
The Narcissistic Personality Disorder is described at length in the links provided below as resources.
Could anyone tell me how to cure obsessional neurosis?
The Treatment is: OCD is treated using medications and therapy. The first medication usually considered is a type of antidepressant called a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). These drugs include: Citalopram (Celexa) Fluoxetine (Prozac) Fluvoxamine (Luvox) Paroxetine (Paxil) Sertraline (Zoloft) If an SSRI does not work, the doctor may prescribe an older type of antidepressant called a tricyclic antidepressant. Clomipramine is a TCA, and is the oldest medication for OCD. It usually works better than SSRI antidepressants in treating the condition, but it can have unpleasant side effects, including: Difficulty starting urination Drop in blood pressure when rising from a seated position Dry mouth Sleepiness In some cases, an SSRI and clomipramine may be combined. Other medications, such as low-dose atypical antipsychotics (including risperidone, quetiapine, olanzapine, or ziprasidone) have been shown to be helpful. Benzodiazepines may offer some relief from anxiety, but they are generally used only with the more reliable treatments. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has been shown to be the most effective type of psychotherapy for this disorder. The patient is exposed many times to a situation that triggers the obsessive thoughts, and learns gradually to tolerate the anxiety and resist the urge to perform the compulsion. Medication and CBT together are considered to be better than either treatment alone at reducing symptoms. Psychotherapy can also be used Provide effective ways of reducing stress Reduce anxiety Resolve inner conflicts
Did Sigmund Freud's work ever matter?
“Ever”? They matter now and always will!He is one of the three or four greatest scientists that ever lived, among the ones that made points of no-returns in the epistemological cut, in this sense only comparable to Newton, Copernico, Darwin and Mendeleiev.He founded an entire discipline that is in part a school of Psychology but also a science transversal to all others, that has as objects of study the by products of the other sciences. And as part of Psychology, he garanteed the scientificization of that discipline, as the formulation of the unconscious in mathematical terms (repressed ideas, its substitutive returns, the unknown knowledge about it the the anguish released in the process) was the first radically anti-mentalist and externalistic explanation to behaviour, as Skinner (a huge critic of Psychoanalysis but an acute reader of Freud) many times pointed out.Also he was an ethical and political hero: all personal freedoms achieved in the last century have his fingerprints - from the depatologization of homosexuality to gender equality, women’s rights, decriminalization of recreative drug use, psychiatric reform and the end of psychiatric encarceration, the stabilishment of public universal health care systems, you name it!Further more, his ideas are astonishingly modern still to our own time, let alone his.And a plus: an amazing writer, with literary qualities as huge as to lead him to get the most important prize in his original tongue, the Goethe.and not to say about his achievements as a neurologist: the first experiments with local anestesics with cocaine (every time you go to the dentist, thank Freud) and as an antidepressant, the hypothesis not only of neurotransmissors but of they being similar to hormones, etc.
What is the difference between freudian ego and buddhism ego?
Thank you for the A2A, Alba. There is nothing in Buddhism that would appropriately be called ego. Any use of the term “ego” that claims connection to Buddhism is not congruent with the actual teachings of the Buddha or any Buddhist tradition.Buddhism does recognize something similar to what psychologists properly labelled a “sense of self” starting in the 1950s. Later, this was shortened to “self” as if there is an actual self inside us, which is demonstrably not true.However, we do have a self-image, and Buddhism recognizes this. It is an inevitable result of interpreting sensory input. Any baby learns, “I can move this arm” and “I can move this leg” and “I can’t move the rattle without picking it up.” From this, we develop a practical notion of “me” and “not me.”So far, this is not a problem, it is simply recognition of a physical reality. However, individuals acculturated by society develop all kinds of ideas about the self, and these ideas, deeply held, are the central root of all suffering.The core teaching in Buddhism does not recognize a self or ego, only a mistaken idea that we have a self. There is nothing to kill or destroy. Rather, through close observation, we become aware that the notion “I am a separate self” is not true, and we let go of it. However, doing this at the level of verbal and rational thought is worth than useless. The error must be corrected deep in the unconscious mind, where the erroneous concept of self arises.Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh phrased it this way, “In Buddhism, there are three diseases of the self. One is to have a low self image. The second is to have a high self image. The third is to have an accurate self image.”