Consultations
Sigmund Freud
observed that there had been three significant humiliations in human history
: First, Galileo's discovery that we were not the center of the universe.
Second, Darwin's discovery that we were not the crown of creation. And
finally his own discovery that we are not in control of our own minds.
It is also true that the universal attitude of tracing human problems
to childhood experiences and repressed emotions begins with the invention
of Psychoanalysis. Thus to take responsibility for your own unconscious
and discover its resources is the way to a creative and fulfilling life.
[Photo: Freud's couch at his house in Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, London]
Caring for those who care
Psychology could be useful to every person who wants to improve the ability to fulfil her life.
To evaluate each
client we would consider the particulars of their situation and their aims.
If a collective requires our services it may be distinguished according to the sector of their activity and the nature of their business:
A) Public sector, or
B) Private sector; either for profit aims, or a not for profit organization.
C) The nature of their business could be educational, health, commercial, etc.
Whether the client is an individual or a collective, working in the public or in the private sector, aiming to make a financial profit or motivated by an altruistic cause, everyone who wants to examine their current life, aiming to improve their knowledge, and to better use their resources to make creative applications of the potential of their human resources, each of them could of course benefit from a psychological examination of their situation.
Turn
on the radio to listen a fragment from Sigmund Freud's interview in London,
on Dec. 7, 1938.
Transcript of the recorded fragment: "I started my professional
activity as a neurologist trying to bring relief to my neurotic patients.
Under the influence of an older friend and by my own efforts I discovered
some important new facts about the unconscious in psychic life, the role
of instinctual urges and so on."
The interview continued thus: "Out of these findings
grew a new science, Psycho-Analysis, a part of psychology and a new method
of treatment of the neuroses. I had to pay heavily for this bit of good
luck. People did not believe in my facts and thought my theories unsavoury.
Resistance was strong and unrelenting. In the end I suceeded in acquiring
pupils and building up an International Psycho-Analytic Association. But
this struggle is not yet over."
Sigmund Freud
'Freud: the secret passion' by John Huston
