Polynomials orthogonal with respect to a perturbation of the Freud weight function by the addition of a mass point at zero are considered. These polynomials, called Freud-type orthogonal polynomials, satisfy a second order linear differential equation with varying polynomial coefficients. It plays an important role in the electrostatic interpretation for the distribution of zeros of the corresp...

development as well as free play being a focus of interpretation. concepts of transference, countertransference, working alliance and negative therapeutic reaction. Since Freud, multiple psychoanalytic paradigms have developed, including Kleinian psychology and self-psychology. While Freud emphasised an energy discharge point of view within a natural science framework, more recent work has also...

The theme of separating the soul from the body created many concerns once it had been announced by René Descartes in his Metaphysical Meditations and Passions of the soul. We believe that Freud was able to bring something new in the philosophical thinking, overcoming the dualism between body and soul. Freud didn’t look after a solution that would start from metaphysical principles, as Spinoza o...

At first sight the prospect is full of promise: trained psychiatric nurse and ex-schizophrenic gets a job in a small, Home Counties psychiatric unit, run in an endearingly informal fashion by a mixed bunch of continental and cockney staff. But the (writing) manner and a determined resolution to squeeze the last bit of humour out of every situation (including a good many that just don't have it)...

sity Church, Oxford. James Clarke & Co. 1949. 204 pp. 8s. 6d. Dr. Lee has attempted (as others have done before him) to effect an accommodation between Freudian theory and Christian doctrine. The task is formidable enough to daunt all but the most sanguine apologist ; and it would be as idle to pretend that Dr. Lee succeeds, as to deny that much of what he has written ought to be read, by Chris...

Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Symbolism offers an innovative general theory of symbolism, derived from Freud’s psychoanalytic theory and relocated within mainstream scientific psychology. It is the first systematic investigation of the development of Freud’s treatment of symbolism throughout his published works, and discovers in those writings a broad theory which is far superior to the widely acc...

As a forensic psychiatrist, I have written extensively about my own routine application of psychiatric and psychoanalytic principles to my practice. 1-7 However, until very recently, I was unaware that Freud, in addition to supplying the indispensable theoretical underpinning, had made direct contributions to forensic psychiatry. Sigmund Freud requires no introduction. His theories and their th...