Far from disproving the model of mind functioning proposed by psychoanalysis, the recent advances in neuropsychiatrical research confirmed the crucial ideas of Sigmund Freud. The hypothesis that the origin of mental illnesses lies in the impossibility for a subject to erase the long-term effects of a remote adverse event is in tune with the view that several psychiatric disturbances reflect the...

Sigmund Freud described as the aim of his life’s work to “throw light upon unusual, abnormal or pathological manifestations of the mind” (1936/1981, p. 447). That entailed tracing them back to the psychological forces behind them and discovering the basic mechanisms behind those forces. The general theory of mind he fashioned from that effort attempts no less than the explanation of humanmental...

So much for [Moses and Monotheism]. . . . I have been very much besought to write something for Romain Rolland’s 70th birthday. . . . I managed to write a short analysis of “a feeling of alienation” which overcame me on the Acropolis in Athens in 1904, something very intimate. . . . . But combine the two proverbs about the rogue who gives more and the beautiful girl who will not give more than ...

Correspondence to: Dr. Anna Pavlova Institut für Experimentelle Hämatologie und Transfusionsmedizin , Universitätsklinikum Bonn Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, 53127 Bonn, Germany Tel. +49/(0)/228/28 71 97 11, Fax +49/(0)228/28 71 60 87 E-mail: [email protected] Hämostaseologie 2010; 30 (Suppl 1): S153–S155 Human blood coagulation factor VIII (FVIII) is an essential protein for the blood coag...

We have been forced to stop all intercourse between Adler's splinter group and our own association, and our medical guests are also requested to choose which of the two they will visit. . . . It is not my purpose, my dear lady, to enforce such limitations in your case. 1 only request of you that with due regard for the situation you make use of an artificial psychic split, so to speak, and make...

David Barry*, Hélio Roque, Maud Dumoux, Janos Kriston-Vizi, Gabriela O. Bodea and Callista Harper Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, 44 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY, UK Sir William Dunn Pathology School, University of Oxford, South Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3RE, UK Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck & University College London, London WC1E 7HX, UK MRC Laborat...

a Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegraphenberg A 31, 14473 Potsdam, Germany b Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Straße 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany c Department of Physics, Humboldt University Berlin, 12489 Berlin, Germany d Institute for Complex Systems and Mathematical Biology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, United Kingdom e Depart...

At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century many famous persons stayed on the Croatian coast mostly because of touristic and health reasons, than because of natural beauties, scientific or political reasons. Most often they came from Austro-Hungary, Germany or Russia but also from our homelands. Among them were also many famous doctors, some known worldwide. The most distinguis...

The mechanisms of general anesthesia constitute one of the great unsolved problems of classical neuropharmacology. Since the discovery of general anesthesia, hundreds of substances have been tested and found to possess anesthetic activity. Anesthetics differ tremendously in their chemical, physical, and pharmacological properties, greatly varying in size, in chemically active groups, and in the...