Others, such as Alfred Adler, placed relatively greater emphasis than Freud did on the ego, while lessening the emphasis on the sexual drives. In Freud's wake, many varieties of talking therapy were created, some ultimately with little connection to the tenets of psychoanalysis, save the notion that people's ways of thinking about their lives, cultivated by their previous experience, may taint their happiness more than do the external events that befall them. Diverse therapies also share the belief that giving expression to one's concerns may both begin to lift the burden they impose and promote self-enlightenment (Freud, Sigmund, 2008, Criticism of…Section, ¶ 3).
Table 1 depicts some of these theorists and how they altered or changed Freud's theories.
Table 1: Changes to Freud's Theories (adapted from Freud, Sigmund, 2008, Criticism of…Section, ¶ 3).
Theorists
Thoughts or Changes to Freud's Theories
Carl Jung
Reconceived the nature of the unconscious.
Melanie Klein
Replaced drives or instincts with interpersonal ("object") relations as the pivot of the psyche.
Alfred Adler
Placed relatively greater emphasis than Freud did on the ego, while lessening the emphasis on the sexual drives.
Freud's talking therapy has also been expanded upon, using less of a connection to the principles of psychoanalysis. In his early years, Freud regularly used cocaine as he perceived it to potentially possess cure-all properties. Freud also believed that medication might one day replace psychoanalysis. In time, albeit, although psychiatrists do prescribe drugs to compliment "talk therapy," it generally has not relinquished its status as a treatment to drugs (Associated Press, 2006). Cognitive-behavioral therapy, one form of contemporary talk therapy, coupled with an antidepressant, reportedly works better for depression than merely prescribing pills for the depressed patient, Dr. Joseph Coyle, Harvard psychiatrist, asserts. This type therapy is not psychoanalysis,...
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