title: Freud: darkness and vision.
abstract: Freud's creation of psychoanalysis is the starting place for a great many forms of contemporary psychodynamic psychotherapy, despite the fact that his work is very much a mixture of brilliant insights and misconceptions. Here, I will attempt to describe both the valuable contributions and the wrong turns, and to show how both can be understood in terms of the traumas he suffered as a child, as well as his particular adaptations to them. A review of his treatment of a number of patients will illustrate this discussion.
authors.affiliation: California Institute of Technology, CA, USA. lbreger@comcast.net
authors.forename: Louis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Breger
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D005619:Freudian Theory / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000266:history* / Q000628:therapy*; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods*; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*