Walter Georg Groddeck ( 1866 – 1934 ) was a physician and writer
regarded as a pioneer of psychosomatic medicine. German physician Georg Groddeck, who practised in Baden-Baden and was the
pathfinder of psychosomatic medicine, astonished his numerous listeners and
readers with his therapy connecting naturopathic treatment with psychoanalytic, suggestive and hypnotic elements. His foot and arm bath, massages
and dietary cuisine are still practised today, although the bold doctrine of
salvation, where he mauled his patients, is necessarily quite authoritarian,
and a more reserved approach would be judged appropriate today. He said “To
provide obedience [is the] foundation of medical art”.
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
The First Five Years Of Childhood Exert A Decisive Influence On Our Life
It has long since
become common knowledge that the experience of the first five years of
childhood exert a decisive influence on our life, one which later events oppose
in vain. Much could be said about how these early experiences resist all efforts of more mature
years to modify them, but this would not be relevant. It may not be so well
known, however,
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