A Pattern of Madness

ISBN-13: 9781855752795 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 248 str.

Neville Symington

Opis

Born of wide-ranging scholarship, a lifetime's psychoanalytic practice and deep personal commitment and struggle, this book will challenge professional practitioners in the field and all those who take a serious interest in understanding the human psyche.

Spis treści

Preface , Introduction , The Pattern of Sanity , Ontology , Freedom , The person , Narcissism and the struggle for survival , Emotional action , The internalizing act , Roy Schafer’s action language , The Pattern of Madness , The jelly , God , Acts of God , The quality of attachment , The worm , Perversions , Trauma , Psychiatric diseases , Psychoanalytic schema of narcissism derived from psychiatry , The Subjective Experience , Human dilemmas , Guilt , Generation of perception and belief , Self-knowledge versus self-consciousness , Technique , Reverse perspective , Principles of action

O autorze

Neville Symington