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In reviewing the history of dynamic psychotherapy in the last chapter, I distinguished a pre-Freudian hypnotherapy phase, a Freudian analytic phase, and a post-Freudian existential phase. During the Freudian phase, the emergence of the dissident thinking of Adler, Jung, and Rank recast the meaning of psychopathology and the goals of treatment. In so doing it prepared the way for our contemporary post-Freudian approach, which is less intellectually analytic and more spiritually integrative or ideal seeking. While valuing the Freudian aim of achieving conflict-free maturity, post-Freudian therapy aims beyond psychological adaptation to achieve freedom and creativity, the pinnacles of human achievement.
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Abroms, E.M. (1993). The Five Modern Schools of Mental Treatment. In: The Freedom of the Self. Critical Issues in Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2896-8_3
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