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  1. Little Hans

    Case Study Summary. Little Hans was a 5-year-old boy with a phobia of horses. Like all clinical case studies, the primary aim was to treat the phobia. However, Freud's therapeutic input in this case was minimal, and a secondary aim was to explore what factors might have led to the phobia in the first place, and what factors led to its remission.

  2. The Case of Little Hans

    The case of Little Hans is perhaps the best known of Sigmund Freud 's case studies. The study details the life of a five year old boy whose father sought help from Freud for his fear of horses. The psychoanalyst believed that Little Hans' behavior provided much needed evidence in support of his theory that infants proceed through five ...

  3. Case Studies: Little Hans

    The review of Little Hans takes place in the period of the Phallic phase, around ages 3 - 4, when children obsess about the penis, sexual differences between men and women and early sexual theories, like that of the stork. Children can be direct with their questions, with parents in most cases misdirecting them with inaccurate answers.

  4. PDF [1909] Analysis Of A Phobia In A Five-Year-Old Boy (the Little Hans

    The case history is not, strictly speaking, derived from my own observation. ... I received at regular intervals about little Hans soon began to take a prominent place. His parents were both ... Since this was written, the study of the castration complex has been further developed in contributions to the subject by Lou Andreas-Salomé, A ...

  5. PDF Freud's Baby

    Case history and analysis of a phobia. Freud restarts the case history with the father's report that Little Hans had developed a nervous disorder - a fear that a horse will bite him in the street. His immediate fear of the horse's large penis, which Little Hans had also assigned to his mother, apparently had deeper.

  6. Sigmund Freud's Little Hans

    One of his most famous case studies is the case of Little Hans, which Freud wrote in 1909. In brief, Hans was a five-year-old who developed a phobia of horses after seeing one fall down and die ...

  7. Re-Reading "Little Hans": Freud's Case Study and the Question of

    3 This view of the ego is, of course, elaborated in Anna Freud's The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936), where she discusses the case of Little Hans to illustrate the defense mechanism of "denial in phantasy." In a later paper, Anna Freud argued "that the importance of Little Hans" lies in the fact that it opened up "a new branch of psychoanalysis" (1980, p. 278).

  8. An 'Invisible Man'?: Little Hans Updated

    Little Hans Updated. years after its first publication. In the light of what we now know about. and the nature of his psychic suffering. The case of Little Hans represents. listening" as an analyst. However, in narrating the case history, Freud. the pathogenesis of Hans's phobia and his psychic growth as an adult.

  9. The Curious Case of Little Hans

    This session will bring Freud's case study to life. Guided by a subject expert, participants will examine the case material and Freud's interpretation of it. ... 'The Curious Case of Little Hans' has been devised as an enrichment session for A Level Psychology students, but can be tailored for KS4 and HE students, either as an ...

  10. Little Hans: a contemporary overview

    The case of Little Hans, an unprecedented experimental child analytic treatment, is re-examined in the light of newer theory and newly derestricted documents. The understanding of the complex over-determination of Hans's phobia was not possible in the heroic age of psychoanalysis. Distance and de-idealization of the pioneer past have ...

  11. Freud (1909)

    Freud agreed to help and believed Hans' phobia was due to things going on in his unconscious mind. Freud used the study of Little Hans to support his views on the origins of phobias, childhood sexuality and the Oedipus complex, as well as his belief in psychoanalysis as an effective therapy. Freud believed Hans' fears, dreams and fantasies ...

  12. The Oedipus Complex and critiquing the validity of Little Hans

    The case of Little Hans may be seen as confirmation to Freud's hypotheses concerning the development of infantile sexuality, which was elaborated upon in his 'Three Essays' (1905) four years prior to the publication of the case. ... Little Hans: a contemporary overview. The Psychoanalytic study of the child, 62(1), 44-60. References Fingert ...

  13. The Curious Case of Little Hans

    This intriguing case is perhaps the best known of Sigmund Freud's case studies. In other words, it details the life of a five-year-old boy who feared horses. The boy's father sought help from Freud due to his fear of horses. Most importantly, the psychoanalyst believed that Little Hans' behavior provided much-needed evidence to support ...

  14. Little Hans: A Centennial Review and Reconsideration

    The case of Little Hans, an unprecedented experimental child analytic treatment, is reexamined in the light of newer theory and newly derestricted documents. The understanding of the complex overdetermination of Hans's phobia was not possible in the heroic age of psychoanalysis. Current analytic thought, as well as distance de-idealization vis ...

  15. Re-Reading "Little Hans": Freud's Case Study and the Question of

    found in Freud's own case study of Little Hans, providing an alterna- tive and more compelling understanding of childhood anxiety, Bowbly was making a strong claim for psychoanalysis to have a ...

  16. Little Hans's Freudian Case Study

    The case study was conducted by Sigmund Freud in the early 1900s and is based on his work with a five-year-old boy known as Little Hans, whose real name was Herbert Graf. Freud's case study of Little Hans began with a letter from the boy's father, Max Graf, who was a Viennese music critic and a friend of Freud.

  17. Video: Sigmund Freud's Little Hans

    Learn about Sigmund Freud's Little Hans case study and the impact it had in the field of psychology. Explore the strengths and weaknesses of this...

  18. Freud: Case Study of Little Hans

    Freud: Little Hans. Aim: A case study to understand Hans fear of horses and to treat it. To monitor the development of a child to the age of 4-5 (used as evidence for the Oedipus complex) Case description: This was a case study; this means a range of information was collected in different ways.

  19. Re-reading "Little Hans": Freud's case study and the question of

    Re-reading "Little Hans": Freud's case study and the question of competing paradigms in psychoanalysis J Am Psychoanal Assoc. 2006 Spring;54(2):537-59. doi: 10.1177/00030651060540021601. ... These analysts each found "evidence" for their theoretical model within this classic case study, and in doing so they illuminated aspects of the case that ...

  20. Trauma and Abuse in the Case of Little Hans: A Contemporary Perspective

    Abstract. Newly available interviews with Max and Herbert Graf describe the severe pathology of Little Hans's mother and her mistreatment of her husband and her daughter, who committed suicide as an adult. Reread in this context, the text of "A Phobia in a Five-year-old Boy" provides ample evidence of Frau Graf's sexual seduction and ...

  21. Strength and Weaknesses of Little Hans

    The case of Little Hans does appear to provide support for Freuds theory of Oedipus complex. Through analysis, Freud and Hans' father were able to use the idea of the Oedipus complex to explain the boy's phobia. ... Little hans case study. 0.0 / 5. Psychology - Is dreaming meaningful? 0.0 / 5. Strengths and weakness. 4.0 / 5 based on 2 ratings ...