[Neither Descartes nor Freud? current pain models in psychosomatic medicine]

Models explaining chronic pain based on the mere presence or absence of peripheral somatic findings or which view pain of psychological origin when there is no somatic explanation, have their shortcomings. Current scientific knowledge calls for distinct pain concepts, which integrate neurobiological and neuropsychological aspects of pain processing.

"Beyond Freud and Jung": Sabina Spielrein's Contribution to Child Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology

Up to the present day, Sabina Spielrein has been seen as a means to deeper understanding of Freud and Jung and, in particular, the relationship between these two “great men”. This is also the reason why her scholarly achievements after her 1912 essay "Destruction as the Cause of Coming Into Being” are hardly taken into account. This study shows that Spielrein's main research work was in the areas of child analysis and developmental psychology—that is, beyond the work and the persons of Freud and Jung—and that she made numerous significant contributions to the field, so many of them ahead of her time.

"Hochgeehrter, lieber Herr Professor Freud" (Radiogespräch, Sendung «Perspektiven», SRF2)

Sigmund Freud, der Begründer der Psychoanalyse, pflegte zeitlebens viele Freundschaften mit Fachkollegen. Aber kaum eine dauerte so lange wie jene mit dem Schweizer Pfarrer und Psychoanalytiker Oskar Pfister.