A presentation created for the purposes of the Erasmus+ Youth Exchange Mind Your Mind, held in the Czech Republic, Jablunkov-Písečná in 2022.

1. Psychologist? I’m, not a fool!
The Czech Presentation

3. Sigmund Freud
- An Austrian psychoanalist of Galician Jewish origins born in the Czech town of
Příbor, nevertheless, he quickly moved with his family to Vienna
- In 1882, Freud began his medical career at Vienna General Hospital, this
career was mainly linked with the cases of “hysteria”
- A huge influence of the Nietzschean philosophy can be seen in his works
- Very quickly though, his researches were deemed as pseudo-science and until
today he still remains a controversial figure in the field of psychology

5. Oedipus and Electra Complex
- A case inspired by the Greek mythology by the myth of Oedipus, this case was
elaborated in his book called Interpretation of Dreams in 1899
- Freud rejected the term Electra complex, introduced by Carl Jung in 1913 as a
proposed equivalent complex among young girls.
- He first explored the concept of having a sexual attraction towards own parents
of the opposite sex, this inspired many artists including Alfred Hitchcock in his
movie “Psycho” (1960)

7. Todestrieb and Repetition Trauma - Death Drive
- In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive is the drive toward
death and destruction, often expressed through behaviors such as aggression,
repetition compulsion, and self-destructiveness
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920)
- The first problem Freud encountered was the phenomenon of repetition of a war
trauma. When Freud worked with people with trauma (particularly from World
War I), he observed that subjects often tended to repeat or re-enact these
traumatic experiences
- Inspiration for the movies of Pier Paolo Pasolini

9. Psychology as a Pseudoscience
- During the totalitarian rule of Czechoslovakia, Freud’s theory was rejected as a
“bourgeois” pseudo-science
- The importance of pseudo-analysis was neglected and seen as a purely medical
problem to solve
- This led to many misinterpretations of previous theories and a general belief
that only “crazy” people have to visit a psychologist/psychiatrist
- After the revolution, the mere fact of seeking the help of psychologist still
remains stigmatized by the society to a wide degree
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1iCqFeNb3A&ab_channel=demabanksy
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11. Depression taken seriously
- Major depressive disorder (MDD; commonly called major depression or clinical
depression) - 2 weeks of depression that don’t reach the severity of MDE but are
long-lasting
- Bipolar disorder
- Seasonal Affective Disorder
- MDE : A Major depressive episode
- Therapies associated with depression include interferon therapy, beta-blockers,
isotretinoin, contraceptives, anticonvulsants, antimigraine drugs, antipsychotics,
hormonal agents such as gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist,magnetic
stimulation to brain and electric therapy.
- ECT and The Hemmingway case: “What is the sense of ruining my head and
erasing my memory, which is my capital, and putting me out of business? It was a
brilliant cure, but we lost the patient.”