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"The term narcissism is derived from clinical description and was chosen by Paul Näcke in 1899 to denote the attitude of a person who treats his own body in the same way in which the body of a sexual object is ordinarily treated."

—Sigmund Freud, On Narcissism An Introduction (1914)
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Paul Adolf Näcke (born 23 January 1851 St. Petersburg, Russian Empire; died 18 August 1913 Colditz) was a German psychiatrist and criminologist. Näcke is known for his writings on homosexuality, and coining the term narcissism in 1899 to describe someone who treated his body as a sexual object.
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_N%C3%A4cke

“Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love.”
—Sigmund Freud

Happy Birthday, Sigmund Freud!
6 May 1856

‏"روانکاوی، جان‌مایه‌اش درمان از مسیر عشق است."
—زیگموند فروید

تولدت مبارک، زیگموند فروید!
۶ می ۱۸۵۶

If you are planning to read or re-read Sigmund Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents", you can now do so with the guidance of the Freud Museum London's dedicated Podcast, which in five episodes offers readers a close reading of this influential text.

The episodes are entitled: 1. Oceans and Archaeological Sites, 2. Techniques for Living, 3. Two Footnotes and an Instinct, 4. On Instincts and the Sense of Guilt, and 5. The Eternal Struggle.

Read "Civilization and its Discontents" on PEP-Web: ▶️ https://pep-web.org/browse/document/SE.021.0057A

Listen to the Podcast here: ▶️ https://www.freud.org.uk/2022/02/15/freud-in-focus-3-podcast

The recording of our second live webinar session on Play, Creativity and Trauma is now accessible via YouTube 🌻

Play, Creativity and Trauma Webinar (March 23rd, 2022) It is evident that play and creativity are central components to not only responding to trauma but also overcoming it. In the absence of play, there is only ...

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We now have a YouTube channel (Society for Psychoanalytic Research), which we will use as a space to share our webinar recordings.

As promised, the first recording is from our event on March 9th on Trauma, Collective Distress and Post-traumatic Growth. This webinar focused on perceptions on trauma, particularly cultural and intergenerational, and considered how these theories might be fruitfully used to understand our own feelings of collective distress during the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Please note that the open discussion was not recorded due to the personal nature of the information shared by the participants of the webinar.

Speaker: Dr. Greta Kaluzeviciute, Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Cambridge (UK) and Assistant Professor at Vilnius University (Lithuania). Her work is focused on psychotherapy research, social media impact on therapeutic relationships, psychoanalytic case studies and young people's mental health. For more information on Dr. Kaluzeviciute's work, please visit: https://gretakaluzeviciute.com/

Trauma, Collective Distress and Post-traumatic Growth Webinar (March 9th, 2022) Today we are yet again faced with a crisis, this time of war. What is happening in Ukraine has touched thousands of people, some of whom are fleeing their co...

What a beautiful turnout at our Trauma, Collective Distress and Post-traumatic Growth online event today - 140 people from all over the world, including Lithuania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, UK and more. It was touching to hear people's personal experiences, and to offer a space to contain our boundless anxiety at this point in time. 💙💛

We will share the event recording later this week - watch this space.

Also, we intend to hold a poll here about the next webinar topic shortly - it'd be great to hear your perspectives on this.

Until next time!

Greta, Josh and Phil