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The Future of Psychoanalytic Therapy. Prof. Sigmund Freud.
The Psychic Treatment of Trigeminal Neuralgia. Dr. Alfred Adler.
The Psychology of Hysterical Adoration of the Madonna. Dr. Oskar Pfister.
1. Future of Psychoanalytic Therapy.—This article was an address delivered by Freud at the second Psychoanalytic Congress in Nürnberg, in 1910. In it, he discussed the probable future development of the psychoanalytic therapy under three headings:
Improvement through internal progress;
Improvement through gain in authority;
Improvement through general effect of psychoanalytic work.
Under the first group, Freud looks for improvement in (a) our analytic knowledge and (b) technique. Under group (a) will come a better knowledge of the transference and dream symbols, typical symbols in particular, which will considerably lighten the work of dream-interpretation. Under improvements in technique , the increased emphasis on overcoming the resistances, the importance of the analyst himself knowing his own complexes and guarding against counter-transference; and further, the need of modifying the analytic technique somewhat, according to the type of malady being treated, whether conversion-hysteria, anxiety-hysteria or obsessional neurosis.