The Clinic and the Context : Historical Essays

ISBN-13: 9781855758940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 208 str.

Elisabeth Young Bruehl

Opis

This book comprises a collection of the distinguished psychoanalyst Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's papers ranging from 'Psychoanalysis and Social Democracy', 'Civilization and its Dream of Contentement', 'Reflections on Women and Psychoanalysis' and 'Reflections on Psychobiography'. Each essay is of value in its own right, and the collection together will be found to make an important contribution to our understanding of the history of psychoanalysis.

Spis treści

Series Editor's Foreword -- Introduction -- Why psychoanalysis has no history -- The trauma of lost love in psychoanalysis -- Civilisation and its dream of contentment: reflections on the unity of humankind -- Psychoanalysis and social democracy: a tale of two developments -- A brief history of prejudice studies -- Reflections on women and psychoanalysis -- Sexual diversity in cosmopolitan perspective -- Women and children first! -- Psychobiography and character study: a reflection

O autorze

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl