Salman Akhtar Professor of Psychiatry Sidney Kimmel Medical College of the Thomas Jefferson University Training and Supervising Analyst Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia ANIMALS Children have no scruples over allowing animals to rank as their full equals Uninhibited as they are in ID: 934175
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ANIMALS:DEVELOPMENT, PATHOLOGY, TECHNIQUESalman AkhtarProfessor of PsychiatrySidney Kimmel Medical College of theThomas Jefferson University,Training and Supervising Analyst Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
Slide2ANIMALS“Children have no scruples over allowing animals to rank as their full equals. Uninhibited as they are in the avowal of their bodily needs, they no doubt feel themselves more akin to animals than to their elders, who may be a puzzle to them” Sigmund Freud
Slide3ANIMALSDEVELOPMENTChild’s inherent kinship to animalsChildren’s storybooks and nursery rhymesFamily petsRural vs urban exposure to
animals
Slide4ANIMALSPATHOLOGYDelusions & hallucinationsLycanthropyCulture-bound syndromes
Sexual perversions including animals
Slide5ANIMALSPATHOLOGY (cont.)Involvement of animals in personality disordersObsessions and phobiasAnimal hoarding
Childhood
psychiatric
disorders
Slide6ANIMALSTREATMENTAcquisition of pets during psychotherapyThe therapist’s pets
Animal
metaphors
Pet-therapy (elderly patients, or those with autism)