[Ludwig Binswanger's technique in his first psychoanalytic cases].
On the basis of patient records held in the university archives of Tübingen, this paper describes the early psychoanalytic technique as practised in the Bellevue sanatorium. Four cases are examined. It was characteristic for these treatments that they took place in the context of close contacts between the analyst, his family and the patients. The patients were required to keep notes about their analysis. At first, Binswanger still applied hypnosis, but soon discarded it in favor of free association which he partly modelled on Jungian association experiments. According to the state of psychoanalytic theory and technique at that time, he focussed on the reconstruction of infantile sexuality, then on dealing with resistance and transference. Sexuality, especially homosexuality and perversions, played a decisive role. The production of sexual material was clearly encouraged.
Henzler
Andrea
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Furtbachkrankenhaus Stuttgart, Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie. andreahenzler@web.de
D049673:History, 20th Century; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000266:history; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis / Q000266:history; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D014481:United States