The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis: 50th Anniversary Edition

ISBN-13: 9780415154871 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 744 str.

Fenichel Otto

Opis

The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis, Fenichel's classic text, summarized the first half century of psychoanalytic investigation into psychopathology and presented a general psychoanalytic theory of neurosis. When Otto Fenichel died, Anna Freud mourned the loss of 'his inexhaustible knowledge of psychoanalysis and his inimitable way of organizing and presenting his facts'. These qualities shine through The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis which has been a standard reference for generations of psychoanalysts.
For this anniversary edition, Leo Rangell has written an introduction that sets Fenichel's work in context. He sees Fenichel as a worthy heir to Freud; both men influenced their followers by what Rangell calls 'the charisma of ideas'. In his epilogue, Rangell describes the fate of Fenichel's ideas and of this book as 'a barometer of the place of psychoanalysis ... within the external intellectual world and, even more significantly, of the trends and shifting winds of opinion within the psychoanalytic field itself'. He traces those trends through the turbulent controversies of the field, concluding that Fenichel's observations are as fresh and relevant today as they were fifty years ago.

Spis treści

Part I Preliminary Considerations; Part 1a A. Introduction; Chapter I Introductory Remarks on Psychoanalysis and the Theory of Neurosis; Chapter II The Dynamic, the Economic, and the Structural Points of View; Chapter III The Method of Psychoanalysis; Part 1b B. The Mental Development; Chapter IV Early Mental Development: The Archaic Ego; Chapter V Early Mental Development (Continued): Development of Instincts, Infantile Sexuality; Chapter VI Later Phases of Development: The Superego; Part II Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis; Part 2a A. Traumatic Neuroses; Chapter VII Traumatic Neuroses; Part 2b B. Psychoneuroses, the Neurotic Conflict; Chapter VIII The Motives of Defense; Chapter IX The Mechanisms of Defense; Chapter X The Direct Clinical Symptoms of the Neurotic Conflict; Part 2c C. Psychoneuroses. Mechanisms of Symptom Formation, and Special Neuroses; Chapter XI Anxiety as Neurotic Symptom: Anxiety Hysteria; Chapter XII Conversion; Chapter XIII Organ Neuroses; Chapter XIV Obsession and Compulsion; Chapter XV Pregenital Conversions; Chapter XVI Perversions and Impulse Neuroses; Chapter XVII Depression and Mania; Chapter XVIII Schizophrenia; Part 2d D. Psychoneuroses, the Secondary Elaborations of Symptoms; Chapter XIX Defenses Against Symptoms, and Secondary Gains; Chapter XX Character Disorders; Part 2e E. Combinations of Traumatic Neuroses and Psychoneuroses; Chapter XXI Combinations of Traumatic Neuroses and Psychoneuroses; Part 2f F. Course and Therapy of Neuroses; Chapter XXII The Clinical Course of Neuroses; Chapter XXIII Therapy and Prophylaxis of Neuroses; Chapter XXIV Epilogue to the 50th Anniversary Edition, Leo Rangell;

O autorze

Otto Fenichel, Leo Rangell