Influential Papers from the 1940s

ISBN-13: 9781855753037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 364 str.

R. D. Hinshelwood

Opis

1940s was a time of great change in the psychoanalytic world. The War sounded a deathblow to continental European psychoanalysis, with only two small societies remaining in Switzerland and Sweden; while Britain and the United States had to adapt to the influx of psychoanalytic refugees. The death of Freud at first brought uncertainty over the future of psychoanalysis but ultimately led to greater creative freedom in exploring new ideas and theories. These years marked the birth of post-Freudian issues. There was a reflective attitude towards psychoanalysis itself, caused by Freud's death and the diaspora of analysts. There were new debates on the relations between psychoanalysis and subjects such as philosophy and biology. There was a good deal of freedom to review metapsychology and ideas such as the development of group therapy, now established, were starting to take root.
A new generation of analysts began to emerge at this time, those who would become highly significant in the development of British psychoanalysis and the object-relations school in later years, including Ronald Fairbairn, Donald Winnicott, John Bowlby and Michael Balint. Winnicott and Bowlby were both essentially empirical and their work in these years were laying the basis for the renowned independent (or middle) group of psychoanalysts in the British Psychoanalytical Society. The 1940s marked an abundance of new ideas and new individuals that would grow to leave their mark on the subsequent decades.

Spis treści

Series Preface -- Introduction to the Journal in the 1940s -- Claiming an Intellectual Heritage -- Introduction -- Science and belief -- Metapsychology -- Introduction -- The development and problems of the theory of the instincts -- The nature and function of phantasy* -- The Independent Group -- Introduction -- Early developmental states of the ego: primary object love -- Endopsychic structure considered in terms of object-relationships -- Primitive emotional development -- Infant Observation -- Introduction -- The influence of early environment in the development of neurosis and neurotic character -- The observation of infants in a set situation -- Klein's Revision -- Introduction -- A contribution to the problem of sublimation and its relation to processes of internalization -- Notes on some schizoid mechanisms*

O autorze

R.D. Hinshelwood is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and currently holds the post of Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and previously was Clinical Director of the Cassel Hospital in Richmond. He is a past Chair of the Association of Therapeutic Communities. Professor Hinshelwood has written extensively on psychoanalysis and founded the 'International Journal of Therapeutic Communities' (now 'Therapeutic Communities') in 1980 and the 'British Journal of Psychotherapy' in 1984.