Historical Survey 1890-1949 Schizophrenia was a rare and perhaps nonexistent disorder before the 19th century. Hippocrates attributed madness to the happenings of the brain. Most in his time attributed to madness to the possession by the gods. In later time, Sigmund Freud developed a theory with metapsychiatry (Gottesman & Wolfgram, 1999). Sigmund Freud used the concepts of his libido theory to explain dementia praecox, or better known as schizophrenia. Freud believed that sexual instincts are connecter closer with the affective state of anxiety than the ego instincts are. When a man excessively develops his libido and elaborates his mental life, these changes constitute conditions that can cause conflicts of neuroses (Freud & Riviere, 1935). …show more content…
Each individual is comprised of innate dispositions, influences from childhood and early life, and conduct in erotic life (Freud, 1928). Freud defined this as a stereotype plate. He later concluded that only portions of these impulses, which determine the course of erotic life, have completely passed through the full process of physical development. For example, if someone’s love is not satisfied by reality, they are bound to approach every new person they come into contact with, with libido anticipatory ideas (Freud, 1928). These ideas being formed by both, the unconscious and conscious. Transference is seen in high correlation with neurotic patients as the most powerful resistance to treatment. In typical treatment, if free associations fail, the stoppage can be removed by an assurance that an association concerned is dominating the individual with the doctor (Freud, 1928). The explanation of this is given to the patient and then the stoppage is removed. With transference, it is almost as if it is mentally bonded to the patients conscious. In plain terms, transference shows the plainest erotic coloring. Transference emerges with greater intensity and lack of restraint during psychoanalysis than outside of it (Freud, 1928). Transference is the result of the resistance of libido. When the libido enters a regressive course, it revives the subject’s most infantile images and uses transference as the strongest weapon of resistance. Freud used this explanation to explain why some cases were unable to be