[Silent_tsol]

I remember when I watched the movie that came out recently (can't remember the name) about Freud and Jung.

I don't know if the conversation ever happened and I don't remember which of them said which lines so bare with me as I ramble.

I guess they were discussing things and they debated the term "psychtherapy" vs "psychotherapy".

Just thinking about the stigma towards mental health and seeking therapy. I wonder if it would be as prevalent if it had of been psychtherapy. I just think "psycho" is so ...close to the thoughts of crazy and well, psycho.

Anyone else have an opinion or thoughts

Hmm wait maybe they were discussing psychoanalysis vs psychanalysis. I guess same application anyways

Interesting question. A Dangerous Method, right? I still need to see it.

The word people throw around, "psycho," is obviously a shortened, further stigmatized version of "psychotic." I don't know how long the stigmatic abbreviation has been around, but the term "psychosis" has been in use since the mid 1800s.

But psychotherapy (or psychoanalysis) didn't get its name from psychotic. They both take the Greek psyche, meaning mind or soul. Psychotherapy, therefor, is therapy of the mind/soul. I think it's perfectly fitting, and rather beautiful. Pychosis was originally shorthand for psycho-neurosis, or a mind/soul-related condition of the nerves.

All that technical stuff aside, the pure etymology of a word doesn't matter much in the light of popular understanding. I'm not sure how much stigma would be avoided with just "psychanalysis." Perhaps quite a bit? It may be that extra O that causes the unwanted association, rational or not.

Do you remember if they said, in the movie, why psychoanalysis was settled on?

[growlycat]

I think Hitchcock's Psycho didn't help with terminology stigma!

[unaluna]

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

Do you remember if they said, in the movie, why psychoanalysis was settled on?

Cos Freud had first dibs! in essence.

[Silent_tsol]

Originally Posted by growlycat

I think Hitchcock's Psycho didn't help with terminology stigma!

This is what I meant when I said

"psycho" is so ...close to the thoughts of crazy and well, psycho.

You are probably right that the name doesn't have that much to do with the stigma. The process could be called runleap and I'm sure there would be some that looked down on people who were in it. I think the reason it stuck to me is that I actually think the word "psychanalysis" (which I'm beginning to think is the one that was debated in the movie) is very pretty.

Comet,
yes it was A Dangerous Method -thanks
And thanks for the info

[Perna]

Here's a review: http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/11/23...rg-review.html

Originally Posted by Perna

Here's a review: http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/11/23...rg-review.html

Perfect! Thanks!
Wonder what Freud meant by "more logical"?

[Perna]

Looking at that 19th century wonder, the "diorama" one sees "orama" meant:

Used to form, from one noun, a second, meaning "wide view of" the first, or (with ironic reference to the preceding sense) "surfeit of", "overattention to", or "exaggerated praise of" the first.

From: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-orama

Now do, "otherapy" :-)