Mental Zoo: Animals in the Human Mind and Its Pathology

ISBN-13: 9781782201670 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str.

Salman Akhtar;Vamik D. Volkan

Opis

The editors and contributors examine research regarding the ways the relationships of people and animals are reflected in human psychopathology. They describe how animals figure in psychiatric symptoms, and how people project their concerns onto animals or describe an aspect of their thinking in terms of animals and their behaviors. They continue by examining case studies of patients and pathologies with connections to animals, such as the horses of Little Hans and the image of the Wolfman, and presenting research in how dogs, birds, snakes, spiders, and cats figure in both diagnosis and therapy. Episodes of cruelty to animals are described.

Spis treści

Introduction -- Conceptual Backdrop -- Animals in Psychiatric Symptomatology -- Freud’s Menagerie -- Rat People -- Horses and Horsewomen -- The Wolf in the Consulting Room -- Other Animals -- Man’s Best Friend -- A Journey with Homo Aves Through the Human Aviary -- Snakes and Us -- Spider Phobias and Spider Fantasies -- The Cat People Revisited

O autorze

Akhtar, Salman