Tuesday, December 09, 2008

All in the Mind - Extraordinary Cases in psychology: Part 4 of 4 - Little Hans and the Oedipus Complex


This is a good one - foundation for some good and bad theory in the years since this "case" was documented.

Extraordinary Cases in psychology: Part 4 of 4 - Little Hans and the Oedipus Complex

The Oedipus Complex - Dr Sigmund Freud's unusual theory that children desire their parent of opposite sex, and want harm to come to the other - has provoked much controversy. Head back to 1904, and it was a little Viennese boy's phobia of horses who became the unlikely evidence for Freud's thinking. A curious tale of castration anxiety, penis envy and the plight of poor Little Hans. NB: The All in the Mind podcast edition is a different program from the broadcast edition this week for copyright reasons. And, the streaming audio is on the BBC's website here.

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NOTE - we cannot bring you the podcast or transcript of this series because it comes from the BBC and the ABC does not hold copyright.

This week's podcast comes from All in the Mind archives instead. Details and transcript are below.

You can hear the BBC series again on their website as streaming audio. The link to that is also below.

Guests

Dr Geoff Rolls
Psychologist
Author of Classic Case Studies in Psychology

Dr Nick Midgley
Child Psychotherapist
The Anna Freud Centre
http://www.annafreudcentre.org/

Professor Jerome Wakefield
Professor of Social Work and Psychiatry,
New York University
http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/our.faculty/jerome.wakefield.html

Jane Greenstead
Deputy Director,
Greenfields House, Childhood First (UK children's charity)
http://www.childhoodfirst.org.uk/

Dr Anthony Stadlen
Psychotherapist

http://www.szasz.com/stadlen.html

Professor David Abrams
Professor of psychiatry and human behaviour
Brown University
http://www.lifespan.org/behavmed/affiliatedfacultypages/dabrams.htm

Julian Burleton
Organiser,
Windsor Park Equestrian Club
http://www.wpec.org.uk/

Further Information

This week's podcast edition - Animal spirits - The mind in history
Details about this week's podcast edition, which was not the broadcast edition.

This week's streaming audio - Little Hans and the Oedipus Complex
Streaming audio edition of this program. No podcast available on the BBC or ABC website of this show.

Publications

Title: Little Hans: A Centennial Review and Reconsideration
Author: Harold P. Blum
Publisher: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vol. 55, No. 3, 749-765 (2007)

Title: Classic Case Studies in Psychology
Author: Geoff Rolls
Publisher: Hodder Arnold, 2005
ISBN-13: 978-0340886922

Presenter

Natasha Mitchell


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