HELLENIC JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
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Volume 6, Issue 1, 2009
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Editors
| Editor-in-Chief: |
Anastasia Efklides |
Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Greece |
| Associate Editors: |
Maria Dikaiou
Angeliki Leondari
Georgios D. Sideridis |
Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Greece
University
of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece |
| Assistant Editors: |
Irini Dermitzaki
Mary H. Kosmidis
Filippos Vlachos
Plousia Misailidi
Pagona Roussi |
University
of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
University of Ioannina, Greece
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece |
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Guest Editors of the
Special Section |
Evrinomy Avdi and
Mary H. Kosmidis |
Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Greece |
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Anastasia Efklides
George Grouios
Shulamith Kreitler
Diomedes Markoulis
Robert Neimeyer
Markku Niemivirta
Jose M. Prieto
Wolfgang Schnotz
Yannis Theodorakis
Maria Tzouriadou
Marja Vauras
Marcel Veenman
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Volume 6,
Issue 1, 2009
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HELLENIC JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
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SPECIAL SECTION:
FREUD’S LEGACY
Guest Editors: Evrinomy Avdi and Mary H. Kosmidis
ELLINIKA
GRAMMATA
Special Section: Freud’s legacy
Prologue
Evrinomy Avdi &
Mary H. Kosmidis..............................................................................VII Exploring the mind
with a microscope: Freud’s beginning in neurobiology
Lazaros C.
Triarhou...................................................................................................1
Η επικαιρότητα του Φροϋδικού έργου
Θεμιστοκλής Κατριός.................................................................................................14
[The contemporary relevance of Freud’s work]
Themistocles Katrios
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25
Η εφαρμογή της ψυχαναλυτικής θεωρίας και πράξης σε γενικό
νοσοκομείο
Ιωάννα
Ιεροδιακόνου-Μπένου......................................................................................26
[The application of psychoanalytic theory and practice in
the general hospital]
Ioanna Ierodiakonou-Benou....…………………....……………….………............................................
37
Post-Freudian encounters between psychoanalysis and culture
Ruth Parkin-Gounelas
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Articles
Diagnosing possible mental health problems in pervasive
disorders: A case report
Panagiotis Siaperas & Stephen Higgins..………..…………………....…………................…….……….........51
Prediction of bully and victim status among young male
offenders
Stavros P. Kiriakidis
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Μορφολογική ενημερότητα, ορθογραφία, και δυσλεξία:
Ταξινόμηση και κριτική
θεώρηση ερευνητικών δεδομένων
Στυλιανή
Ν. Τσεσμελή.………..…………………....…………..……....................…………….…….……….......80
[Morphological awareness, spelling, and dyslexia:
Classification and evaluation
of empirical studies]
Styliani N. Tsesmeli................………..……………………...…………..………………….……..........………....
106
Hellenic Journal of
Psychology, Vol. 6 (2009), pp. vii-viii
The papers that comprise this Special Section, entitled
Freud’s legacy were presented at the Day Conference “Freud’s
Legacy to Contemporary Science” that was organised in
November 2006 by the School of Psy-chology of the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki and the Psychological Society of
Northern Greece. The Day Conference was organized in
commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Freud’s birth, and
explored and re-examined the contribution of his work to the
humanities, neuroscience, psychotherapy, art and cul-ture.
The importance of Sigmund Freud’s work for contemporary
Western culture has been compared to that of Charles Darwin
and Karl Marx, as it is considered to have defined the way
in which contemporary Western people view ourselves. Freud’s
work is rich, diverse, widely applicable and ambitious, as
it studies human behaviour at the intrapsychic,
interpersonal and social levels. Freud himself defined
psychoanalysis as a set of psychotherapeutic techniques
aimed at exploring unconscious life, as a theory for the
develop-ment of personality, and as a “metapsychology”, that
is, a set of theoretical hypotheses concerning the
struc-ture, organization and functioning of mental life.
This Special Section includes papers that address different
disciplines that draw from Freud’s work, and highlights the
breadth, systematic nature, complexity and rich-ness of his
work.
More specifically, in the first article, Triarhou presents
an overview of Freud’s work in neurobiol-ogy, before he
turned his attention to understanding and treating human
psychopathology. His research in neuroanatomy, and more
specifically in animal histology, cellular biology and basic
neuroscience, led him to important observations regarding
neuronal structure and intracellular motility, long before
these views became established. The paper, also, includes
several original photographs from primary sources.
In the second article, Katrios discusses the importance and
contemporary relevance of Freud’s work to psychoanalytic
theory and practice. He presents a concise yet comprehensive
historical review of the main points in the development of
Freudian thought, from the seduction theory to the revisions
of the 1920s and the articulation of the structural model of
the mind. These issues are discussed in relation to the work
of later psychoanalytic thinkers, and the paper highlights
the gradual shift in Freud’s thinking from the
drive-structure model to the relationship-structure model.
Then, the author focuses on the non-repressed uncon-scious
and presents a relevant clinical example. The paper
delineates the development of Freud’s thought, highlights
its contemporary relevance and points out issues that arise
from Freud’s work and still remain thought-provoking and
contentious.
The next article concerns mainly issues of practice, and, in
particular, as they arise from the applica-tion of
psychoanalysis to clinical settings other than that of
individual psychotherapy. Ierodiakonou-Benou discusses the
relevance of Freudian thought to psychiatric practice,
focusing on developments in psychoana-lytic theory and
technique as a result of its application in the National
Health Service, and more specifically in the general
hospital. In addition to discussing the issues that
psychoanalytically-informed clinicians need to attend to in
this particular clinical setting, the author also discusses
the contribution of psychoanalysis to the therapeutic
management of psychotic states and to liaison psychiatry in
the general hospital. In summa-rizing, the author suggests
that Freud’s work constitutes an important legacy to
contemporary clinical prac-tice, as the main clinical and
theoretical axes of his work are still relevant today.
The last paper is an example of the application of
psychoanalysis to the study of art and culture.
Parkin-Gounelas focuses on a point of convergence between
psychoanalysis and cultural studies, which cen-tres on the
notions of symbolization and sublimation. She draws from
post-Freudian theorists and discusses symbolization and
sublimation through reference to two classical texts,
Shakespeare’s A midsummer night’s dream and Dafoe’s Robinson
Crusoe. Moreover, she examines the points of convergence
between two post-Freudian approaches to sublimation, the
Kleinian and the Lacanian, which are often considered
incommen-surable. This paper is an example of the breadth of
applicability of Freudian thought beyond psychology and
psychiatry, in the interpretation of culture and literature.
The four papers in this Special Section highlight the
continuing influence of Freudian thought on the humanities,
psychoanalysis, psychology and psychotherapy. In addition,
they also make apparent the spirit of discovery, scientific
curiosity and subversiveness that characterizes the work of
the founder of psycho-analysis. In this way, we hope to pay
tribute to an important figure in the history of Western
thought.
Thessaloniki, January 2009
The Guest Editors
Evrinomy Avdi and Mary H. Kosmidis
Note:
We would like to thank
the authors and the anonymous reviewers for contributing to
this Special Sec-tion and Professor Anastasia Efklides for
her valuable contribution in organizing the Day Conference
and for her support in preparing this Special Section.
Address: Evrinomy Avdi, School of Psychology,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki,
Greece. E-mail: avdie@psy.auth.gr
Address: Mary H. Kosmidis, School of
Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24
Thessaloniki, Greece. E-mail: kosmidis@psy.auth.gr
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