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'''Theodor Reik''' (1888-1969) was a prominent [[psychoanalyst]] who trained as one of [[Freud]]'s first students in Vienna, Austria. Reik received a PhD degree in [[psychology]] from the University of Vienna in 1912. His dissertation, a study of [[Flaubert]]'s Temptation of Saint Anthony, was the first psychoanalytic dissertation ever written. After receiving his doctorate, Reik devoted several years to studying with Freud, who financially supported Reik and his family during his psychoanalytic training. During this time, Reik was analyzed by [[Karl Abraham]]. Reik, who was Jewish, emigrated from Austria to the United States in 1938 in flight from [[Nazism]]. In [[1944]], he became a [[naturalized citizen]] of the [[United States]].

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Rejected from the dominant community of medical psychoanalysts in the United States because he did not possess an MD degree, Reik went on to found one of the first psychoanalytic training centers for psychologists, the [[National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis]], which remains one of the largest and best-known psychoanalytic training institutes in New York City.

On June 19 2007, Higgins announced that her second single from her sophomore album [[On a Clear Night|On A Clear Night]] would be "'''Where I Stood'''". The song was released to commercial radio on June 25 2007. The song was also featured on a promo for [[Desperate Housewives|Desperate Housewives]] in Australia.

As part of Reik's conflict with the medical psychoanalysis community, he participated in the first lawsuit which helped define and legitimize the practice of psychoanalysis by non-physicians.

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Reik is best known for psychoanalytic studies of psychotherapeutic listening, [[masochism]], [[criminology]], literature, and religion.

The video premiered at midnight (12am AEST) on 26th June 2007 via Higgins' [[Myspace]] page. The video was directed by Australian filmmakers Paul Goldman and Alice Bell.

Reik's first major book was ''The Compulsion to Confess'' (1925), in which he argued that [[neurotic]] symptoms such as blushing and stuttering can be seen as [[unconscious]] confessions that express the patient's [[repressed]] impulses while also punishing the patient for communicating these impulses.

Reik further explored this theme in ''The Unknown Murderer'' (1932), in which he examined the process of psychologically profiling unknown criminals. He argued out that because of unconscious guilt, criminals often leave clues that can lead to their identification and arrest.

In ''Masochism in Modern Man'' (1941), Reik argues that patients who engage in self-punishing or provocative behavior do so in order to demonstrate their emotional fortitude, induce guilt in others, and achieve a sense of "victory through defeat."

Reik presented a forceful criticism of traditional Freudian theory in ''A Psychologist Looks at Love'' (1944). Freud had believed that love is always based on some form of sexual desire. Reik argued, to the contrary, that love and lust are distinct motivational forces.

Reik's most famous book, ''Listening with the Third Ear'' (1948), describes how psychoanalysts intuitively use their own unconscious minds to detect and decipher the unconscious wishes and fantasies of their patients. According to Reik, analysts come to understand patients most deeply by examining their own unconscious intuitions about their patients.

In his psychoanalytic autobiography'' Fragments of a Great Confession'' (1949), Reik turned a psychoanalytic ear toward his own life, interpreting his inner conflicts and their influence on his writing and relationships.

''The Secret Self'' (1952) comprises a number of essays of psychoanalytic literary criticism, in which Reik tried to decipher the unconscious fantasies and impulses lying beneath literary works. In this book, Reik continued to develop his interest in the relationship between his own personality and his work, exploring how his internal conflicts shaped his interpretations of literary works.

In ''Myth and Guilt'' (1957), Reik investigated the role of guilt and masochism in religion.

Reik's theories were a strong influence on the French psychoanalytic theorist Jacques [[Lacan]], and anticipated recent developments in US psychoanalysis, such as its current emphasis on [[intersubjectivity]] and [[countertransference]]. Reik's legacy for nonmedical psychoanalysis in the US is equally important. The training of nonmedical analysts, such as psychologists and social workers, is now largely accepted, partly because of Reik's efforts.

== Publications ==

* Reik, T. (1925/1959). ''The compulsion to confess.'' In J.Farrar (Ed) The compulsion to confess and the need for punishment. (pp. 176-356). New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy.

* Reik, T.(1932/1959). ''The unknown murderer.'' In J. Farrar (Ed) The compulsion to confess and the need for punishment. (pp. 3-173). New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy.

* Reik, T. (1941). ''Masochism and modern man.'' New York: Toronto, Farrar & Rinehart.

* Reik, T. (1944/1974). ''A psychologist looks at love.'' In M.Sherman (Ed.) Of Love and Lust. (pp.1-194) New York: Jason Aronson.

* Reik, T. (1948). ''Listening with the third ear: The inner experience of a psychoanalyst.'' New York: Grove Press.

* Reik, T. (1952). ''The Secret self.'' New York: Farrar, Straus and Young.

* Reik, T. (1957). ''Myth and guilt.'' New York: George Braziller.

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