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In 1895 Sigmund Freud proposed his “Project for a scientific psychology” where he proposed psycho-dynamics as a discipline based on thermodynamic principles . Freud focused his attention on the ‘energy’ and its distribution in the mental apparatus and outlined how psychopathology may be related to normal psychology. Within this ‘thermo-dynamics’ of the mind he proposed basic terms of ‘psychodynamics’.
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Bob, P. (2015). Psychodynamics as ‘Thermodynamics’ of Mind. In: The Brain and Conscious Unity. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2700-5_1
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