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Parent topics

• psychoanalysis [r]: Add brief definition or description
• psychiatry [r]: The subfield of health sciences concerned with mental disorders. [e]
• psychology [r]: The study of systemic properties of the brain and their relation to behaviour. [e]
• psychotherapy [r]: An intervention technique that relies on interpersonal communication between a therapist and a client to address specific forms of diagnosable mental illness, or everyday problems. [e]

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Other related topics

• Alfred Adler [r]: An early psychiatrist who first worked with Sigmund Freud's school of psychoanalysis, but broke over differences over models of personality and methods of treatment. [e]
• Carl Jung [r]: (born July 26, 1875, Kesswil, Switzerland – died June 6, 1961, Küsnacht) A Swiss psychiatrist, influential thinker, and one of the founding fathers of modern psychology. [e]