Theories of Neurosis

ISBN-13: 9783642884757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 164 str.

M. Gossop; H. J. Eysenck

Opis

In view of the practical importance of neurotic disorders (with something like one-third of the population suffering such dis turbances at some time of their lives) and the equally great theoretical importance of types of behaviour that clearly seem to contradict both common sense and the law of effect, one might have expected that psychologists would develop consis tent and testable theories of neurosis and that there would be many textbooks outlining these theories and describing the experiments done to test them. Oddly enough nothing of the kind seems to have happened. There is a dearth of theories of neurosis; those that do exist are not usually put in a readily testable form, and the amount of research that has been done in order to test these theories is nothing like as large as one might have hoped. Nor are there many books setting out the various theories, the arguments for and against and the empiri cal evidence; in fact, this may be the only book to have under taken this task in the past 20 or 30 years. It is fortunate that the author has succeeded in what is an extremely difficult and complex task. He has examined issues and theories dispassionately and impartially, has clarified the contradictions inherent in most theories and has wisely refused to come to any kind of final judgment about the adequacy of the given theories."

Spis treści

I. The Concept of Neurosis.- 1. Historical Background.- 1.1 Neurosis.- 1.2 The Organic Model.- 1.3 The Psycho-dynamic Model and the Concept of Intrapsychic Conflict.- 1.4 Moral Treatment.- 1.5 Learning Theory and Behaviour Therapy.- 2. The Neurotic Disorders.- 2.1 Psychiatric Diagnosis.- 2.2 The Neuroses.- 2.2.1 Anxiety Neurosis.- 2.2.2 Hysterical Neurosis.- 2.2.3 Hysterical Neurosis, Conversion and Dissociative Types.- 2.2.4 Phobic Neurosis.- 2.2.5 Obsessive-Compulsive Neurosis.- 2.2.6 Depressive Neurosis (Reactive Depression).- 2.2.7 Neurasthenic Neurosis (Neurasthenia).- 2.2.8 Hypochondriacal Neurosis.- 2.2.9 Depersonalisation Neurosis (Depersonalisation Syndrome).- 2.2.10 Other Neuroses.- 2.3 Problems of Diagnosis.- 2.4 Reliability and Consistency.- 2.5 Validity.- 2.6 Social Context.- 3. Neurosis, Normality and Psychosis.- 3.1 Normality and Abnormality.- 3.2 Neurosis and Psychosis.- II. Theories of Neurosis.- 4. Conditioning Theories of Neurosis.- 4.1 Classical Conditioning.- 4.2 Conflict and Frustration.- 4.3 Two-Stage Theory.- 4.4 Incubation.- 4.5 The Stimulus.- 4.6 Preparedness.- 4.7 Therapeutic Implications of Conditioning Theory.- 5. Social and Cognitive Theories.- 5.1 Dissatisfaction with Conditioning Theories.- 5.2 Modelling.- 5.3 Life Events and Neurosis.- 5.4 Labelling.- 5.5 Attribution.- 5.6 Cognitive Accounts of Depression.- 5.7 Social Anxiety and Social Competence.- 5.8 Further Implications for Therapy.- 6. Psycho-analytic Theories of Neurosis.- 6.1 Psychological Determinism.- 6.2 Repression and the Unconscious.- 6.3 The Structure of the Mind.- 6.4 Regression and Infantile Sexuality.- 6.5 The Actual Neuroses.- 6.6 The Psycho-neuroses.- 6.7 Little Hans.- 6.8 Neo-freudian Theories.- 6.8.1 Adler.- 6.8.2 Homey.- 6.8.3 Fromm.- 6.9 The Evaluation of Psycho-analysis.- 7. Trait Theories of Neurosis.- 7.1 Guilford.- 7.2 Cattell.- 7.3 Eysenck.- 7.4 Criticisms of Trait Theory.- 8. The Physiology and Genetics of Neurosis.- 8.1 Physiology and Neurosis.- 8.2 Eysenck.- 8.3 Claridge.- 8.4 Gray.- 8.5 Genetics and Neurosis.- 8.6 Studies of Twins.- 9. Overview.- 10. References.- 11. Author Index.- 12. Subject Index.