But Facts Exist: An Enquiry Into Psychoanalytic Theorizing

ISBN-13: 9781855751934 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 200 str.

Thomas Freeman

Opis

This book provides an account of the chequered course of international psychoanalysis over the last 100 years, with a lucid critical treatment of the major theoretical developments, illustrated by clinical examples drawn from the author's own vast experience.

Spis treści

Introduction 1 The clinical foundations of Freud's pleasure (unpleasure) principle 2 The theory of repression 3 Freud's theory of mind reformulated: Beyond the Pleasure Principle 4 The new schema of the mental apparatus and its antecedents 5 A short detour around Freud's theories of anxiety 6 The reinterpretation of clinical facts (descriptive data) 7 Psychoses and psychoanalytic theories of development 8 Theories of narcissistic object relations 9 On the formal aspects of psychotic phenomena 10 Theory and technique in psychoanalysis 11 Is there a way forward?

O autorze

Thomas Freeman MD FRCP, also author of Development and Psychopathology: Studies in Psychoanalytic Psychiatry and Chronic Schizophrenia.