Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Freud , Sigmund (1975), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud, Retrieved on 2012-05-17
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    17 MAY 2012

     The Third Blow to Man's Ego

    In the course of centuries the naïve self-love of men has had to submit to two major blows at the hands of science. The first was when they learnt that our earth was not the centre of the universe but only a tiny fragment of a cosmic system of scarcely imaginable vastness... the second blow fell when biological research destroyed man's supposedly privileged place in creation and proved his descent from the animal kingdom and his ineradicable animal nature… But human megalomania will have suff...
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    Not the center of the Universe, not above the animals, and now not even in control of his own mind.

    17 MAY 2012

     Psychiatry is Magic

    A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by 'mere' words. He will feel that he is being asked to believe in magic. And he will not be so very wrong, for the words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic. But we shall have to follow a roundabout path in order to explain how science sets about restoring to words a part at least of their former magical power.
    Folksonomies: psychiatry
    Folksonomies: psychiatry
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    Using mere "words" to heal patients.

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