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Loss and Renewal

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No matter how hard we work, we won’t always achieve the goals we set for ourselves. When cognitive scientist Maya Shankar was a girl, she wanted to be a concert violinist. Then an injury forced her to imagine her life anew. This week, we revisit a favorite episode from 2015 with Maya. See more...

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An Old Idea: What Ails the Body is Rooted in the Mind

The diagnosis and the treatment fit the era in which they occurred. It was the early 1950's, and the field of psychosomatic medicine — based on the notion that many diseases have their origins in emotional distress — was in its heyday.

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Barron H. Lerner
2006
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Images in Psychiatry: Franz Alexander, 1891–1964

Alexander was a rare psychoanalytic pioneer who, despite a thorough grounding in classical Freudian theory, had the courage, vision, and flexibility to modify his thinking in the light of newer knowledge.

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Judd Marmor
2002
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Is Psychosomatic Medicine Real?

A short lecture from the Psychosomatics Student Group Riga by Kamiar-K. Rückert. Talking about the History of the Mind and Body in medicine as well as the Physiology (Stress-Fear Axis, Epigenetics and Psychoimmunology).

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Franz Alexander
2016
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What is Psychosomatic?

The term ‘psychosomatic’ means mind and body related. A psychosomatic disorder is a physical disease which is caused, or worsened, by mental factors. The term is also used when mental factors cause physical symptoms but where there is no physical disease.

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Franz Alexander
2019
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Theories of Psychosomatic Disorders

A short lecture from the Psychosomatics Student Group Riga by Kamiar-K. Rückert. Talking about the different psychodynamic theories of Psychosomatic Medicine.

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Sigmund Freud
2017
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Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: Developments in Theory, Technique and Training

This book presents new viewpoints on the application of psychoanalytic principles to psychotherapy. Important changes have taken place as a result of the growing acceptance of psychoanalysis by the medical community.

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Franz Alexander
1956
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The History of Psychiatry: An Evaluation of Psychiatric Thought and Practice from Prehistoric Times to the Present

This work provides an account of the people, movements and events that have influenced the direction and character of psychiatry. The authors trace the various ways of dealing with mental illness that have emerged and developed, from prehistoric times to the modern day.

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Franz G. Alexander, Sheldon T. Selesnick
1977
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