Instituto de Psicoterapia e Investigación Psicosomática

Autogenic abreaction and psychoanalysis

Autogenic abreaction and psychoanalytic therapy have at their very root a common concept: the pathogenicity of disturbing mental recordings. Despite the difference in techniques and approach, both methods share, to a certain extent, many other conceptual similarities. Altough it is impossible in a short paper to review the fields of psychoanalysis and autogenic abreaction, I will try to elaborate on some of the common areas, and the possibility of crossfertilization between the two disciplines.