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  2. The Trauma of Birth (German: Das Trauma der Geburt) is a 1924 book by the psychoanalyst Otto Rank. It was first published in English translation in 1929.

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  3. Aug 12, 2019 · Otto Rank studied how birth impacts individuals’ psychology and creates anxiety throughout their lives in Europe and the US during the nineteenth century. In his book The Trauma of Birth , Rank stated that birth was extremely traumatic and that one spent his or her whole life trying to recover from the experience of being born and harshly ...

  4. May 4, 2020 · Otto Rank, an Austrian psychoanalyst, was the first to talk about the trauma of birth. His central theory is that being born is the first trauma humans experience. The abrupt separation from our mother and sudden exit from a protected environment to a hostile world leave a lasting impact on us.

  5. First published in 1924, Otto Rank 's The Trauma of Birth took as its starting point a note that Freud added to his The Interpretation of Dreams in 1909: "Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety" (1900a, pp. 400-401n).

  6. Apr 18, 2024 · Otto Rank was an Austrian psychologist who extended psychoanalytic theory to the study of legend, myth, art, and creativity and who suggested that the basis of anxiety neurosis is a psychological trauma occurring during the birth of the individual. Rank came from a poor family and attended trade.

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  7. Known for the concept of the “trauma of birth,” Otto Ranks contributions to the fields of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy have largely been obscured. Rank came from an impoverished family with an alcoholic father, and was sent to a trade school to become a locksmith.

  8. He referred to this idea as “the birth trauma,” which was considered to be “the first major revision of the unconscious” (Makari, 2008, p. 355), and this necessitated a re-examination of the Oedipus complex. Freud initially supported Ranks ideas on the birth trauma, but he be-gan to question its scientific basis.

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