F is for FREUD, THE MASTER MIND

by Helen Borel,RN,MFA,PhD

   Sigmund Freud,MD, the great Austrian psychoanalyst, fathered a whirlwind revolution in psychiatric concepts and treatments.  A neurophysiologist, he pioneered, in the early 20th Century, the discovery of "the unconscious mind," along with his parallel theories and treatment approaches that underpin all of today's multitude of 
analytic and therapeutic modalities.  Whether these methods include Cognitive Behavioral, Hypnosis, Dialectical, Group, Family, EMDR, Dream Interpretation (Freud's "Royal Road to the Unconscious"), Pediatric Play Therapy, and so forth, all psychiatric practitioners stand on his genius shoulders.

   Even my own analytic-plus-direct-feedback method, which I call
Holistic Interactive Interventional Psychoanalysis, could not have emerged from my own unconscious without the genius concepts of
Dr. Freud, the great Mind Master.

   Today, despite antipsychotic medications, electroconvulsive therapy, and hospitalization treatments for schizophrenics, despite anxiolytic Rx pharmaceuticals for high anxiety, despite antidepressants for the severely depressed, despite antimanic drugs and hospitalization for bipolar disorder,all psychiatric patients benefit from psychotherapy
and should always be prescribed this in tandem with whatever medical treatments a psychiatrist orders.

   Psychotherapy, the brilliant heir of Freud's discovery of the unconscious, is not only valuable in mental illnesses. It, by now, has become essential in a myriad of problematic life circumstances.  The sundry methods that therapists use can be adapted to the highly specific needs of each individual patient.  The goal, in all cases, is to lift the therapy patient out of a malfunctioning way of life up to social, emotional, career and creative wholeness and maturity.  And to free all sufferers from suffering.

   With these goals in mind, I silently thank Dr. Sigmund Freud, when I interact with my own psychotherapy patients.

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