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Body dysmorphic disorder : a psychoanalytic perspective
(Dublin Business School, 2011)With a close examination of the formation of the body image in psychoanalytic theory, I hope to gain insight into how the image in the mirror comes to be distorted in body dysmorphic disorder and to propose some suggestions ... -
Child animal phobia : explorations of what Freud and Lacan have to offer in explaining the origin, possible treatment and the positive aspect of child animal phobia in helping the child navigate the Oedipus complex
(Dublin Business School, 2011)Child animal phobia is explored in terms of psychoanalysis. Freud’s case history of Little Hans is used to illustrate the origin and treatment of child animal phobia. Freud’s theories of infant sexuality, castration fear ... -
Freud's civilised man... Aristotle's virtuous man questioned
(Dublin Business School, 2008)In this thesis Aristotelian theory has been used to represent the norm of societal thinking in the area of human goodness and morality. Aristotle's theory has been used to illustrate the Freudian view point around civilization. ... -
Freud's seduction theory
(Dublin Business School, 2001)During the last five years of the nineteenth century, Sigmund Freud developed most of the core psychodynamic and developmental insights, which became psychoanalysis. Freud' s articulation of the seduction theory of neurosis ... -
Is there a connection between the parental inputs which lead to eating disorders?
(Dublin Business School, 2005)My intention is to explore the condition of anorexia and bulimia and how the parental inputs can lead to these disorders. I will investigate how a parent's unconscious and conscious identifies with the infants needs that ... -
The Madness of Robert Schunlann
(Dublin Business School, 2003)The composer Robert Schummm (1810 - 1856) died in an asylum at Endenich, near Bonn, having previously tried to kill himself by throwing himself into the Rhine. Posthumous diagnoses include syphilis, meningitis, dementia ... -
A study of neurosis through the lens of scopophilia
(Dublin Business School, 2016)A study of neurosis through the lens of scopophilia – the desire to look - considers Freud’s case of the Rat Man. The Freudian case is examined for scopophilia and taken through to the modern Lacanian clinic of neurosis. ... -
Through a glass darkly. The place of psychoanalysis in the treatment of Anorexia Nervosa in women
(Dublin Business School, 2004)"I look at other girls and I think, they are thinner than me, even if I know that I am really thin, so thin that here I am in hospital being fed through my nose. But they are just thinner and I'll never be as thin as them." ... -
The topic of sexuality within the therapeutic encounter : the therapists experience and viewpoint
(Dublin Business School, 2012)This research study seeks to explore psychotherapists’ management of the topic of sexuality in the therapeutic dyad. Specific interest is directed toward the real, authentic and ‘felt’ experiences of the psychotherapist ... -
What am I now? A psychoanalytic investigation of tattooing
(Dublin Business School, 2015)This paper interrogates the practice of tattooing using a number of psychoanalytic concepts to determine some of the reasons why a subject may choose to become ‘tattooed’, and what some of the psychical consequences of ...