Exploring the Unconscious - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0854780173 ISBN 13: 9780854780174

Publisher: Vision Press

Synopsis

2013 Reprint of 1933 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Georg Groddeck (1866-1934) was a physician and writer regarded as a pioneer of psychosomatic medicine. Of his method Groddeck wrote: "He who draws the conclusion that I mentally medicate a human who has broken his leg is very true - but I adjust the fracture and dress the wound. And then - I give him a massage, make exercises with him, give a daily bath to the leg with water at 45°C for half an hour and I take care that he does neither gorge nor booze, and every now and then I ask him: Why did you break your leg...?" The present volume is a compilation of addresses and articles taken, for the most part, from journal articles. Chapters include: Shadows of the Past Unconscious Purpose in Animal Behavior Unconscious Factors in Organic Processess Unconscious Symbolism in Language and Art Theoretical Bases

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The originality and importance of Groddeck's contribution to psychoanalysis was recognized by Sigmund Freud, and is now acknowledged that Groddeck's interpretation of the wide realm of what he conceived as the It opened up an entirely new horizon in psychosomatic diagnosis. This collection of essays offers an exploration of the mysteries of human nature as revealed in literature, music and art, from which there emerges a recognition of the dual age of man (for everyone always is both a child and an adult) and his double sex - the woman in man and the man in woman. The book includes the paper "Unconscious Factors in Organic Processes", which sets out Groddeck's views on massage and contains a new anatomy of the body in terms of psychological processes. Groddeck was born in Germany in 1866 and spent his early years as a writer, and then qualified as a doctor, becoming director of a clnic in Baden-Baden where he remained until his death in 1934. He wrote "The Book of It" and "The Unknown Self".

Edition details

• Publisher: Vision Press
• ISBN 10: 0854780173
• ISBN 13: 9780854780174
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English