Juan Lopez Ibor

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Summary

Juan Lopez Ibor (1906 - 1991) was a Spanish psychologist and former President-Elect of the World Psychiatric Association.

He, along with Harald Hoffding and others, called attention to the cinesthetic and Vivencial aspects of feeling alive and also to the importance of Corporeality, not only a living experience (the Vivencia of the body), but also a Phenomenological reality (see Vital Unconscious and Biocentric Principle).

Ideas

• Anxiety - Ibor believed that anxiety is primarily a product of a biological process, the result of a physiological or organic disorder.
• Anguish - A different phenomena to anxiety. His clinical conceptualization and description of anguish corresponds quite well to our current understanding of Panic Attacks.
• Thymopathy - A disease of the Thymus gland, to which he attached a strong endogenous component. This concept would later become relevant in Psychosomatic Medicine.
• He also conducted pioneering work on Atypical Depression.