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Psychoanalysis in mental health

Psychoanalysis in mental health PSYCHOANALYSIS IN MENTAL HEALTH WARREN J. MUHLFELDER N 1919, Sigmund Freud said: "At to the staiT service of a state hospital, some time or other the conscience of this would be considered either a waste the community will awake and admo- of laborious and long psychoanalytic nish that the poor man has just as much training, or unsuccessful or only partially right to help for his mind as he now successful personal analysis of the phy- has to the surgeon's means of saving his sician who wanted to go back to "State." life; that che neuroses menace the health It was generally felt that the analyst of the people no less than tuberculosis, who would choose a state hospital career and can be left as little as the latter to was either personally insecure, unwilling, the feeble handling of individuals. if not unable to face the Park Avenue "It may be a long time before the competition, that he wanted to escape state regards this as an urgent duty... from a life situation with which he sometime or other, however, it must could not cope, or that in a symbolic come. way he wanted to escape from himself. "The http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
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1965 The Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
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1573-6741
DOI
10.1007/BF01873477
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PSYCHOANALYSIS IN MENTAL HEALTH WARREN J. MUHLFELDER N 1919, Sigmund Freud said: "At to the staiT service of a state hospital, some time or other the conscience of this would be considered either a waste the community will awake and admo- of laborious and long psychoanalytic nish that the poor man has just as much training, or unsuccessful or only partially right to help for his mind as he now successful personal analysis of the phy- has to the surgeon's means of saving his sician who wanted to go back to "State." life; that che neuroses menace the health It was generally felt that the analyst of the people no less than tuberculosis, who would choose a state hospital career and can be left as little as the latter to was either personally insecure, unwilling, the feeble handling of individuals. if not unable to face the Park Avenue "It may be a long time before the competition, that he wanted to escape state regards this as an urgent duty... from a life situation with which he sometime or other, however, it must could not cope, or that in a symbolic come. way he wanted to escape from himself. "The

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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis – Springer Journals

Published: Sep 1, 1965

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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