Psychoanalysis The Height Of Academia Essay - 1635 Words

Martin Seligman: Well the state of psychoanalysis wouldn’t exactly put it on a pedestal to measure my work against†¦ Sigmund Freud: What are you proposing? Is Psychoanalysis not the height of academia in your time? Martin Seligman: Only if the height of academia includes the isolation of most psychoanalytic ideas as well as psychoanalysis losing its place within psychiatric education (Hoffman 2010). A lot of psychoanalysis has gone unacknowledged in my era, outside of psychology within pop culture (WYCCWYC). Much of this has to do with your first and only trip to America in 1909, in which you did not leave a very big impact; you had come to â€Å"the land of unbridled optimism† to spread your grand message that the best one could hope for was â€Å"somewhere in the centre of repression and abandon† (Greenberg 2010) Sigmund Freud: America was a land in its infancy, obsessed with the pursuit of happiness that would soon grow to be a compulsion, they were not ready for the â€Å"plague I was bringing them† (harper). Is that all there is to my legacy? Surely my work has secured its place in the grand history of psychology! Martin Seligman: You’re right! In the 50s 60’s, psychoanalysis was the premier method within psychiatry (Hoffman 2010). Within that time, any colleague within the field was likely to find themselves running into one of your theories, and either (a): finding their idea was much less original than they had previously thought, or (b): finding that their idea vehementlyShow MoreRelatedOrganisational Theory230255 Words   |  922 Pagestextbook usefully situates organization theory within the scholarly debates on modernism and postmodernism, and provides an advanced introduction to the heterogeneous study of organizations, including chapters on phenomenology, critical theory and psychoanalysis. Like all good textbooks, the book is accessible, well researched and readers are encouraged to view chapters as a starting point for getting to grips with the field of organization theory. Dr Martin Brigham, Lancaster University, UK McAuley et