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Freud, mental health, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, talking treatment
Pope reveals he had weekly psychoanalysis sessions at age 42
Pope Francis has revealed that he sought the help of a psychoanalyst for six months when he was 42 and the leader of the Jesuit order in Argentina during the country’s military dictatorship.
The pope’s disclosure was made in a book based on 12 in-depth interviews with the French sociologist Dominique Wolton, to be published next week.
Francis said the weekly sessions with the psychoanalyst helped him a lot. “For six months, I went to her home once a week to clarify a few things. She was a doctor and psychoanalyst. She was always there,” he told Wolton for the 432-page book Pope Francis: Politics and Society.
Freud, mental health, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, talking treatment
Therapy Wars: The Revenge of Freud – Guardian Article by Oliver Burkeman
[Click here to visit the Guardian site and read Oliver Burkeman’s article.]
Cheap and effective, CBT became the dominant form of therapy, consigning Freud to psychology’s dingy basement. But new studies have cast doubt on its supremacy – and shown dramatic results for psychoanalysis. Is it time to get back on the couch?
“…researchers at London’s Tavistock clinic published results in October from the first rigorous NHS study of long-term psychoanalysis as a treatment for chronic depression. For the most severely depressed, it concluded, 18 months of analysis worked far better – and with much longer-lasting effects – than “treatment as usual” on the NHS, which included some CBT. Two years after the various treatments ended, 44% of analysis patients no longer met the criteria for major depression, compared to one-tenth of the others.”
Culture, Freud, Freud Museum, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, talking treatment
What is Psychoanalysis? Part 3: Oedipus Complex – Freud Museum London
Click here to see the third part of the Freud Museum introductory video series on psychoanalysis.
IN THIS EPISODE:
The emotional world of children
His Majesty the Baby
The mother as first love object
Is it sexual?
Jealousy, rivalry, hatred and anxiety
The role of the father
Gender: Freud didn’t think you were just ‘born a boy’ or ‘born a girl’
There is no perfect resolution of the Oedipus complex
It marks us for life
More info: www.freud.org.uk/education/