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Kulagina-Yartseva V.S..
Otto Rank. Will Therapy. Chapters 4-5 (translation)
// Psychologist. – 2012. – № 2.
– P. 136-182.
DOI: 10.7256/2306-0425.2012.2.136.
DOI: 10.7256/2306-0425.2012.2.136
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Abstract: In his works Otto Rank reviewed the basics of the classical psychoanalysis. Speaking of the psychoanalytical therapy, Otto Rank believed that at its final stage, the therapy process is when a patient is born again. Our unconsciousness views the therapy process as a symbolic birth and this is why a patient perceives himself as a new-born, in other words, a spiritual child of a psychoanalyst. Therefore, psychotherapy allows a patient to overcome the trauma of his birth.
Keywords: will therapy, trauma of birth, psychoanalysis, Oedipus complex, unconsciousness, neurosis, regressive tendencies, behavior psychology, opposition to the present, problem of the past
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Rank, O. Will Therapy, Truth and Reality. [text]N.Y. : Knopf, 1947.
The Incest Theme in Literature and Legend [text]Johns Hopkins, 1991.
The Myth of the Birth of the Hero[text] Johns Hopkins, 2004.
Das Trauma der Geburt [text]Psychosozial-Verlag, 1998.
Truth and Reality.[text]Norton, 1978.
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Krotovskaya N.G..
Otto Rank. Will Therapy (translation)
// Psychologist. – 2012. – № 1.
– P. 196-216.
DOI: 10.7256/2306-0425.2012.1.137.
DOI: 10.7256/2306-0425.2012.1.137
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Abstract: The true meaning of psychotherapy becomes evident only at the end of the psychotherapeutical process when a psychoanalyst turns from a helping Ego into a helping reality. Reality is not only the enemy to an individual, as it may seem to a neurotic personality at first. It is also a big help to Ego. When a usual person learns how to use the reality in the course of the therapy, a neurotic personality can learn how to use the reality only in the course of psychotherapeutical relations. Typical features of neurosisi include not only the feeling of unsatisfaction with the reaity but also a deliberate escape from natural cure. In modern psychoanalysis psychotherapy can only struggle for a new attitude towards it so that we can review our past and reach a new balance begween us and the reality.
Keywords: psychology, psychoanalysis, therapy, reality, neurosis, personal, social, balance, internal world, external world
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Rank,O. Will Therapy, Truth and Reality.- N. Y.: Knopf, 1947.
Rank O. Mif o rozhdenii geroya. — M.: Refl-buk, Vakler, 1997.
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Karpf, F.B.The Psychology and Psychotherapy of Otto Rank: An Historical and Comparative Introduction. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1978.