Psychosocial Medicine and Observation of Animals

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Abstract
Pioneers of psychoanalysis did not draw on observation of animals for theories of instinct. Veterinary medicine can contribute to knowledge of motivation and psychopathology. Animals can not talk but they act out freely. Two pet dogs, one male, the other female: each when dominant behaved like a male sexually and when dominated, like a female. The male was very dependent upon the female since separated from his mother at 3 weeks, indecisive without her. Observation of personality in animals should simplify and make more realistic psychoanalytic instinct theory. Emotional disorders range from the internal symptoms through all mixtures to the behavior disorders, where the disturbance is acted out. The latter cause our major national and international problems and show the need for psychosocial medicine. In this field animals can teach us much, especially about maturing in personal relations, rearing the young, love and hate, family and social living - for only man acts out the psychopathology of individuals in organized form as social pathology against his own species.

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