WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF DEPTH THERAPY IN MENTAL HEALTH?
Rank,in the 1920s and 1930s, became dissatisfied with this approach, attacking not only the technique itself but some of the very basic Freudian theoretical formulations (Oedipal complex, libido theory, etc.).He was in essence the first to break through the length of the process and accelerate thereaching of the unconscious. He claimed that he could help a person transform from a highly blocked,disturbed existence to a highly creative and artistic way of life within a nine-month period (the time period being equal to the time involved in the process of pregnancy), at which point the birth of theself would take place.
With the introduction of this concept into psychoanalytic thought camemany new approaches and techniques. Among the more well-known are Psychodrama, Gestalt theory (Fritz Perls), and many more psychoanalytically based systems that deal more directly with the intrusion of the therapist’s personality into the therapeutic process. As with…
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