In Freud's psychoanalytic theory of personality, the pleasure principle is the driving force of the id that seeks immediate gratification of all needs, wants and urges. In other words, the pleasure principle strives to fulfill our most basic and primitive urges, including hunger, thirst, anger, ...
DSM-5 makes it clear that autism is not a psychotic disorder. Instead, autism is included within the domain of “Neurodevelopmental Disorders”. This is a group of conditions, usually evident in the pre-school years, characterised by specific developmental impairments...
In particular, the concept of the lived body (Leib) assists in understanding the relationship between a patient and his environment.doi:10.1515/SEMI.2009.020LangewitzWolfWalter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KGSemioticaLangewitz W. A theory of psychosomatic medicine: An attempt at an explanatory summary....
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