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The most common psychological illnesses philosophers

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Do not forget that the metaphysical or desires of a more worldly philosophers have often stem from different psychological problems. It also happens in reverse, is an intellectual problem derives psychological delusions. This is because a true philosopher working on himself, so that concern disorders I tend to be most common among this guild. We found a few varieties evident.
Melancholy is the first. Reflecting on death, the human condition or similar topics is something that easily leads to a state of sadness, which can be temporary or chronic. Heraclitus could be the first afflicted. At the end of his life, disgusted by the vice of his fellow citizens of Ephesus, became a misanthrope. The incomplete or chaotic state of some of his works is blamed by Theophrastus to this feeling that dominated. Hanna Arendt is more direct and clear. It literally says "As I am a melancholy, than just thinking I can fight.". Walter Benjamin is betrayed quickly and often appears in photos with downcast eyes and melancholy.
The manic-depressive swing refers to the passing from strong phases of exaltation to the deepest depression. Auguste Comte is a good representative of this condition, after being deceived by his wife, scaring exalted. He sticks a fork in the cheek of a servant and, months later, living in a near-vegetative state.
The anxiety is historically confused and melancholy that has been used for cases of anxiety and melancholy itself. We describe a number of philosophers who fall into state clearly anxious. Kierkegaard sees in such a state of anxiety and melancholy that supports the need for a psychiatric view. Is described thus: "From very young I was under the influence of an immense melancholy depth of which finds its only true expression in the faculty, who has been granted degree equally immense, hidden under the appearance and enjoyment of life." Hegel confesses: "I am an anxious man. Schopenhauer neurotic since the death of his father is a misanthropic, misogynist, Depressed, ... says, "I inherited my father's curse and anguish that I fight with all my strength. This anxiety comes over me, sometimes for a trifle, with such brutality that I see as something done, a catastrophe merely possible, even just unthinkable. "Hobbes, who sleeps with two loaded pistols for fear of attacks, confesses that" the Fear and I were born twins "in reference to his premature birth motivated by the Spanish army troops.
Among social phobics have to Thomas Aquinas on the run from his peers. To say mass at the church comes before everyone and retire quickly for fear of being seen by others. Descartes makes no effort to find him, such as constantly changing domicile.
In hypochondriasis could see a list that would include Erasmus, Voltaire and Kant. The latter describes the phenomenon: "The imagined hypochondriac who suffers from all the diseases that have heard of."
With dissociative disorders, we refer to the altered states of consciousness, depersonalization, etc ... In the example of Plato, which personalized philosopher Socrates only, we could have a case.
In personality disorders the patient remains the same, but with much suffering. Megalomania is usually a simple case for this section. The philosopher in turn is thought to be more than it is. Between talking to God and speak as if God were no great distance. Giordano Bruno and Abelardo are examples of this case. The latter said: "I believed that was the only philosopher in the world.." Rousseau belongs to another variant, is a paranoid lost. Famous in 1761 when the Jesuits imagine going to stand in his Emile. For him there is a plot "The judges hate me (...) The philosophers to whom I have exposed, they want to lose at any price and will get it (...) the priests, philosophers sold to harass me (...) The authors plagiarize me and I censor. "Schelling has neuroses of all kinds. It is extremely likely, he fights with teachers, with peers, with students ... a cyclothymic temperament coupled with noise phobia.

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The couch is a problem for psychoanalysis

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Freud was the instigator of this fad that lasted (and still lasting many years), the patient lay on a couch and the psychoanalyst to bring her back. According to Freud the origin that the term was spent to sustain the gaze of his patients for hours. Then he argued otherwise, that the patient and better focused on what he had to say that lowered the analyst's influence on patient feedback, etc ... Of course this is the official version, if we think we can draw some other conclusions.
The founder of psychoanalysis was to show some justification for this procedure, but the reason he would not reveal is that he wanted to "go down to hell" of the patient, preferring to adopt an attitude comfortable distance that allows only involved to the extent that he agreed . Its aim was to use patients as clinical data that would allow him to delve into his theories, not as people who need human communication to solve their problems.
To begin placing a patient on a couch it produces a contempt, it is treated like a guinea pig that is supposed to function by mechanical stimuli. Furthermore it is in a position of inferiority to the analyzer, which, moreover, and as a result of this situation easily tends to be idolized and with increased transfer. René Spitz recognized unequivocally that the main function of the patient couch is puerilizar to get more data from his childhood. The problem is that with this device transfer intensity tends to increase and with it increases the difficulty for psychoanalysis of the patient.
Although communication of the patient's thoughts toward the analyst may make it difficult at first instance, postmarked after this first initial barrier involves the patient in front of an adult (and not talking to an entity that responds poorly) that can understand what happens and you can establish a human bond. The transfer is smaller and the patient gets feedback frontal fruit of dialogue helps to improve the expression of their thoughts and feelings.

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