Subject(s)
Politics , Psychoanalysis/history , Austria , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , United StatesABSTRACT
This paper sheds some new light on four visits of Freud to Carinthia between 1898 and 1923. New information from contemporary sources is added to already known facts (patient visit in 1898; encounters with Alban Berg in 1900 and 1907).
Subject(s)
Correspondence as Topic/history , Famous Persons , Mouth Neoplasms/history , Music/history , Psychoanalysis/history , Travel/history , Austria , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Humans , MaleABSTRACT
The paper describes the efforts, sustained over more than a decade, to identify Freud's patient Emmy von N. Finally, Andersson's investigations have led to success: he was able to prove that she was Fanny Moser, then one of the richest women in Europe. The documents he discovered and the report of his oral history interviews provide a colorful picture of her personality.--Three letters of Freud to Fanny Moser's daughter are added.
Subject(s)
Correspondence as Topic , Psychoanalysis/history , Psychoanalytic Therapy , Austria , Female , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , HumansABSTRACT
The BSI-18, an abridged version of the Brief Symptom Inventory of Derogatis, contains the 3 six items scales Somatization, Depression, Anxiety, and the Global Score (GSI). In a sample of N=638 psychotherapeutic patients, reliability and validity were proven. Reliability of the 3 scales was good: Somatization α=0.79, Depression α=0.84, Anxiety α=0.84, and GSI α=0.91. The postulated three-factor structure was proven sufficiently using confirmatory and explorative factor analyses. The questionnaire separated different patients groups. Judgments of the therapists corresponded well with the self-rating behavior of the patients. In conclusion, the psychometric evaluation of the BSI-18 resulted in persuasive evidence for its reliability and validity. The loss of information, as a result of item reduction, is acceptable analyzing large samples; in cases of individual analyses, the SCL-90-R is advised.
Subject(s)
Mental Disorders/diagnosis , Psychiatric Status Rating Scales , Psychotherapy/standards , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Data Interpretation, Statistical , Factor Analysis, Statistical , Female , Humans , Male , Mental Disorders/psychology , Middle Aged , Reproducibility of Results , Surveys and Questionnaires , Young AdultABSTRACT
This paper provides an overview of the quantitative side of the systematic records kept by Freud on his practice. He left precise records of the duration, frequency, and fees of psychoanalytic treatments. These statistics are compared with the treatment duration and frequency customary in present-day psychoanalytic practice in German-speaking countries. The results suggest that, regarding frequency and duration and their relationship, there is little difference between Freud's psychoanalytic practice and that of the present day.
Subject(s)
Practice Management/history , Psychoanalysis/history , Appointments and Schedules , Austria , Fees and Charges , Financial Management , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Humans , WorkloadABSTRACT
This paper sheds new light on the facts and chronology of Sigmund Freud's two-month stay in Leipzig. Using material from the Leipzig city archives, the authors explore the attempts of Freud's father in 1859 to obtain a permanent residence permit in Leipzig for himself and his family. At that time, there was a ban on the immigration of foreign Jews into Saxony, lifted only for merchants whose residence was deemed beneficial to local commerce. Evidently, Jacob Freud did not meet this requirement and therefore had to move on to Vienna. The significance of these events for Freud's mental development is discussed.
Subject(s)
Archives , Psychoanalysis/history , Austria , Germany , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , HumansABSTRACT
The paper presents a compact description of those resources of the Freud Museum most relevant for the Freud scholar: 1. the Archives with its collection of letters, documents, photos, and press cuttings from the 1920s and 1930s, as well as reproductions of paintings and photos of tourist features, compiled by Freud himself; 2. Freud's archaeological collection; 3. Freud's library.
