TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychosomatic medicine
T2 - The divergent legacies of Freud and Janet
AU - Gottlieb, Richard M.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - A series of differing explanations of a puzzling case of psychosomatic illness introduces some reflections on a century's history of psychoanalytic interest in the mind-body problem. Freud and Janet explained the physical symptoms of hysteria using radically different models of the mind. Since then Janet's model, banished early on, has returned to haunt the castle of psychoanalysis. The enduring influence of Janet's model on subsequent thought in this field, especially that of Marty and de M'Uzan, Sifneos, LeDoux, and others, is traced, as is the influence of Freud's model on Groddeck, Alexander, McDougall, Fonagy, and others. It is argued that although these models are vastly different at one level of abstraction, at a higher level they share an important set of assumptions.
AB - A series of differing explanations of a puzzling case of psychosomatic illness introduces some reflections on a century's history of psychoanalytic interest in the mind-body problem. Freud and Janet explained the physical symptoms of hysteria using radically different models of the mind. Since then Janet's model, banished early on, has returned to haunt the castle of psychoanalysis. The enduring influence of Janet's model on subsequent thought in this field, especially that of Marty and de M'Uzan, Sifneos, LeDoux, and others, is traced, as is the influence of Freud's model on Groddeck, Alexander, McDougall, Fonagy, and others. It is argued that although these models are vastly different at one level of abstraction, at a higher level they share an important set of assumptions.
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U2 - 10.1177/00030651030510031001
DO - 10.1177/00030651030510031001
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:1542313803
SN - 0003-0651
VL - 51
SP - 857
EP - 881
JO - Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
JF - Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
IS - 3
ER -