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Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-47991-2 — Wounded Healers Keh-Ming Lin , Translated by Keh-Ming Lin Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-47991-2 — Wounded Healers Keh-Ming Lin , Translated by Keh-Ming Lin Index More Information INDEX A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Anna O., 20, See also Pappenheim, Bertha Freud and Sabina Spielrein, 29 Antigone, 109, 111, 112 Abraham, Karl, 37, 84, 88, 98, 99, 104 Anna Freud as modern-day Antigone, 111–112 acting out, 7 Apathy Stage, 128 active imagination, 38, See also Jung, Carl archetype, 2, 4, 8, 42 acupuncture, 3 Argonauts of the Western Pacific, 159 Adler, Alfred, 5, 8, 33, 37, 44–54, 59, 70, 84, 88, 125, 222 Art and Artist, 62 child guidance centers, 53 Artist, The, 59 individual psychology, 53, 125 Aryan, 34, 35 inferiority complex, 49, 54, 125, See also ASC, 199–200 inferiority complex Asklepios, 3 president of the Viennese Psychoanalytic Atman, 40, 135 Society, 51 attachment theory, 93, 148 self-instinct, 50 Auschwitz, 5, 127, 130 split with Freud, 51 Austrian Socialist Party, 65 temperamental differences with Freud, 52–53 Thursday Study Group, 52 Bateson, Gregory, 5, 155, 159–167, 169, 170, 180, 195 Wednesday Psychological Society, invitation double bind theory, 195 by Freud, 49 end-of-life care, 167 Adler, Valentine New Guinea, 159–161 Adler, Alfred, daughter of, 48, 54 psychotherapy, efficacy research, 195 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 63 Bateson, Mary Catherine, 155, 163–166, 168–170 Aeschylus, 1 growing up, 165–166 Agassiz, Louis, 208 Bateson, William, 159 Aichhorn, August, 110 Battle for the Mind, 199 Akhenaten, 34, 35 Bauby, Jean-Dominique, 133, 134 alchemy, 40, 42 Becker, Ernest, 56–58 Alcoholics Anonymous, 42 behavioral therapy, 217 Alexander the Great, 18 Bellow, Saul, 75 altered state of consciousness, 3, 199–200, See also Benedict, Ruth, 156, 157, 169, 170 ASC Bernays, Edward, 109 American Journal of Psychology, 34 Bernays, Martha, 15, 19, 21, 27, 52, 91, 108, 109, 121 An Autobiographical Study, 221 Bernays, Minna, 27, 109, 116 Anatman, 135 Bernfeld, Siegfried, 91, 109 Andreas-Salome, Lou, 112 Beyond Psychology, 62 Anglo-Saxons, 76, 77 biological psychiatry, 82, 199 animal magnetism, 196 bion, 68 anitya, 40, 135 biopsychosocial model, 150 237 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-47991-2 — Wounded Healers Keh-Ming Lin , Translated by Keh-Ming Lin Index More Information 238 Index bipolar disorder, 73, 80, 119, 121, See also manic- Anna Freud’s view, 118 depressive psychosis Erikson, Erik, 180 birth trauma, 5, 55 Klein’s contribution, 98–99 bisexuality, 26, 152, 169 child-rearing practices, 162, 170 Bleuler, Eugen, 29–31, 36, 80, 142, 150, 169 Chiron, 3 Blos, Peter, 174–176 chloral hydrate, 21 Boas, Franz, 156, 157 Chrysanthemum and the Sword, The, 156 Boer War, 189 Civil War, 14, 208 bog men, 34 Clark University, 34, 83 Book of Dreams, A, 64 Clarke, Charles, 81 Bowlby, John, 93, 105, 118 client-centered therapy, 62 Brady, Mildred Edie, 70, 71 clitorectomy, 21 Brahmin, 188, 190 cloudbuster, 71, 72, 75, See also Reich, Wilhelm Bremen, 34 Coca-Cola, 14 Breuer, Josef, 20–25, 28, 30 cocaine, 13–17, 21, 24, 26, 36, 82 Brill, A. A., 80, 81, 179 history, 13–15 British Psychoanalytic Society, 76, 104, 117, 118 as local anesthetic, 15 Brücke, Ernst Willhelm Ritter, 15, 19–21 original ingredient of Coca-Cola, 14 Buddhism, 2, 40, 43, 135, 201 collective unconscious, 40 Buehl, 172 Columbia University, 156, 159, 176, 179 Bullard, Dexter, 147 Columbus, Christopher, 23 Bulldogs Bank Home, 118 Coming of Age in Samoa, 155, 232 Burghölzli Hospital, 29, 35, 36, 51, 80, 82, 88, 150, 179 Communist Party, 47, 48, 66, 98 Burlingham, Dorothy Tiffany, 94, 113–122, 175, 177 compensation, 49, See also Adler, Alfred Burlingham, Michael, grandson of, 120 concentration/extermination camp, 118, 123, childhood, 113 127–129, 131–135 marital troubles, 113–114 Congresses on Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, 196 problems of Burlingham’s children, 120–121 consciousness, 2, 3, 40, 215, 216 rescue of the Freuds, 115–117 Controversial Discussions, 104 trip to Arizona, 114 Cordelia, 109, 111, 112 Burlingham, Robert, 113–115, 119, 175 Cornell University, 149 bipolar disorder, 113, 119 Cosmic Orgone Engineering, 72, See also Reich, burnout, 6 Wilhelm butterflyeffect, 166 countertransference, 7, 221 creative illness, 7 Café Siller, 125 creativity, 8, 26, 35, 62, 73, 119, 222 Calvin, John, 187 Cressman, Luther, 156, 158 Campbell, Joseph, 42 Cromwell, Oliver, 18 Camus, Albert, 133 cultural anthropology, 155–158, 162, 166 cannibalism, 161 field work, 156 Cannon, Walter Bradford, 217 focus on participant observation, 156 Cassandra’s Daughter, 52 cultural evolution, 156 catharsis, 22 cultural relativism, 156 Celts, 76 culture shock, 223 Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Cutting for Stone, 5 Sciences at Stanford (CASBS), 145, 224 cybernetics, 166 Cervantes, Miguel de, 23 chaos theory, 166 Dachau, 5, 128, 130 Chapman, Ross, 149 dang-ki, 3 Character Analysis, 66, 67 Dali, Salvador, 117 Charcot, Jean-Martin, 21, 30, 78, 82, 119, 197 Darkness Visible, 209 Chestnut Lodge, 140–144, 147 Darwin, Charles, 208, 214 Chiang, Monlin, 202 dementia praecox, 30, 80, 142, See also Chichester, Sophia, 206 schizophrenia child psychoanalysis Denial of Death, The, 56 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-47991-2 — Wounded Healers Keh-Ming Lin , Translated by Keh-Ming Lin Index More Information Index 239 determinism, 5, 161, 210 Bloland, Sue, daughter of, 184 biological, 161 change of last name, 180 cultural, 161 growing up with stepfamily, 173 Dialectical Materialism and Psychoanalysis, 66 Homburger, Theodor, stepfather, 173 discrimination, mentally ill, 142 identity crisis, 171, 181, 182, 188, 191 Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The, 133 his own, 173–174 Doctor and the Soul, The, 130 move to USA, 178–179 Don Quixote, 23, 24 mystery of paternity, 171–172 Double, 62 psychosocial developmental model, 182–184 double bind theory, 195 stage of care, 183 Down’s syndrome, 184 stage of competence, 183 Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care, 162 stage of fidelity, 183 duhkha, 2, 135 stage of hope, 183 Duncan, Isadora, 176 stage of love, 183 stage of purpose, 183 earth mother archetype, 8 stage of will, 183 Eckstein, Emma, 26 stage of wisdom, 183 ecology, 166, 167 questioning Gandhi, 190 Eder, David, 80 Salomonsen, Valdemar, unconsummated ego psychology, 54, 125 marriage with Karla Abrahamsen, 172 Einstein, Albert, 41 teaching at Anna Freud’s school, 174–175 Eitingon, Max, 37, 88, 100 tragedy with Neal, 184–185 Elle, 133 Erikson, Joan, 176–179, 184, 185, 190, Ellis Island, 70 marriage with Erik Erikson, 176 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 205–208, 214, 218 role in Erik Erikson’s life and work, 184 as godfather of William James, 205 Sarah Serson, original name, 176 and James, Henry Sr., 205–206 tragedy with Neal, 184–185 Engel, George, 150 Erikson, Kai, 176, 185 Epstein, Raissa Timofeivna, wife of Adler, Alfred, son of Erik and Joan Erikson, 176 46–48 Esalen Institute, 167 Erickson, Milton, 192–201 Evolution of Psychotherapy Conferences, 196 ancestry existential therapy, 62 Native American, 192 existential vacuum, 134 Scandinavian, 192 existential-humanistic movement, 131 childhood external object, 102, 103 Nevada, 192 Wisconsin, 192 Fairbairn, Donald, 102, 103 confusion with Erikson, Erik, 192 fairytales, Kleinian interpretation of, 86, 97 decision to study medicine, 194 family disabilities, 192 extended, 164 poliomyelitis nuclear, 163 appreciation of the unconscious during father complex, 8, 34 recovery, 193–194 FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), 70, 72 recovery from, 193–194 FDA (Food and Drug Administration), 64, 70–72 survival from, 193 fear of death, 55–58, See also Becker, Ernest study of hypnosis, 194 Federn, Paul, 51, 125 wizard of the desert, 195 Ferenczi, Sándor, 37, 53, 61, 81, 85, 87, 88, 96, Ericksonian approaches to hypnosis and 98–100, 114, 152 psychotherapy, 192 field work, anthropological research method, 156 Ericksonian hypnotherapy, popularization of, 196 fight-or-flight response, 217 Ericksonian psychotherapy, 198–199 First Cause, 210 Erikson, Erik, 5, 8, 107, 145, 171–191, 209, 224 Fleischl-Marxow, Ernst von, 15–16 Abrahamsen, Karla, mother, 171–174 treatment by Freud with cocaine, 15–16 American career, foundation of, 179–180 Fliess, Wilhelm, 23, 26–28, 91 Anna Freud, analysis and training by, 176–178 Foo, Sunhoo, 139 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-47991-2 — Wounded Healers Keh-Ming Lin , Translated by Keh-Ming Lin Index More Information 240 Index Fordham University, 34 worldwide recognition, 121 Fortune, Reo Freud, Sigmund second husband of Margaret Mead, 158–160 addiction, 13–15 Four Noble Truths, 2 cocaine, 13–17 Frank, Jerome, 199 nicotine, 13, 17, 28 Frank, Lawrence K., 163, 180 cigar, 13, 28 Frankfurt School, 66 cigarette, 13, 28, 129 Frankl, Viktor, 5, 123–135, 222 cocaine given to Fleischl-Marxow, 15–16 Apathy Stage, 128 as conquistador, 23, 25 childhood, 124 death, 90 Elly (Eleonore Katharina Schwindt), second with morphine, 117 wife, 131 discrimination against the Jews, 19, 20 as Freud’s student, 124–125 fainting, 33, 34 logotherapy, 5, 131 Freud, Emanuel, brother of, 17, 18 paradoxical intention, 135 Freud, Josef, uncle of, 18 parents as migrants, 124 Freud, Jakob, father of, 8, 17–18 paths to meaning in life, 131 Freud, Philipp, brother of, 17, 18 creativity and work, 132 leukoplakia, 60 love, 132 Nathansohn, Amalia, mother of, 17–18 suffering, 132–133 North America, trip to, 34 relationship with Adler, Alfred, 125 oral
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