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Psychoanalysis : a very short introduction / Daniel Pick.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Very short introductionsPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2015Description: 143 pages ; 18 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199226818 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 150.195 PIC 022851
Contents:
Introduction -- How psychoanalysis began -- A case of obsessional neurosis -- Oedipus -- Analytic space, time, and technique -- War, politics, and ideas -- Further innovations and controversies -- Unconscious dramas -- The struggle is not yet over -- A note on confidentiality.
Summary: Since its inception, psychoanalysis has been hailed as a revolutionary theory of how the mind works, and some of its ideas have inspired art, literature, and film, and become part of everyday conversation. This title offers a wide-ranging survey and offers insights into the therapeutic potential of the psychoanalytic method that Sigmund Freud pioneered. It shows how ideas about the unconscious have been applied, sets out various criticisms of the psychoanalytic procedure, and considers how both practice and theory have evolved since Freud.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-136) and index.

Introduction -- How psychoanalysis began -- A case of obsessional neurosis -- Oedipus -- Analytic space, time, and technique -- War, politics, and ideas -- Further innovations and controversies -- Unconscious dramas -- The struggle is not yet over -- A note on confidentiality.

Since its inception, psychoanalysis has been hailed as a revolutionary theory of how the mind works, and some of its ideas have inspired art, literature, and film, and become part of everyday conversation. This title offers a wide-ranging survey and offers insights into the therapeutic potential of the psychoanalytic method that Sigmund Freud pioneered. It shows how ideas about the unconscious have been applied, sets out various criticisms of the psychoanalytic procedure, and considers how both practice and theory have evolved since Freud.

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