SOCIO-CULTURAL MODELS IN PSYCHIATRY

Abstract

No greater tribute can be paid to Sigmund Freud than to say that modern social psychiatry psychoanalytic and all-is, in many ways, an outgrowth of his works. Nor would Freud have been disturbed about the fact that many of his original ideas have been overcome, and that additional dimensions have been added to therapeutic theory as well as procedure. For one, Freud himself thought of psychoanalysis in its classical setting as a "personality-anchored" method: he was quite aware more than some of his followers that the types of procedures he outlined ( and abided by) were particularly suited for his personality, and not necessarily universal (1). He, too, was the first one to weigh the meaning of psychoanalysis: what is it that you have after you have psychoanalyzed an individual? (2).