Theories Of Neurosis

Author : M. Gossop
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783642884733

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Theories of Neurosis by M. Gossop Pdf

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.

Author : M Gossop,H J Eysenck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1980-12-01
Category : Neuroses
ISBN : 3642884741

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Theories of Neurosis by M Gossop,H J Eysenck Pdf

Author : Otto Fenichel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134617647

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The Psychoanalytic Theory Of Neurosis by Otto Fenichel Pdf

Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan Isaacs. Each volume is available on its own, as part of a themed mini-set, or as part of a specially-priced 204-volume set. A brochure listing each title in the "International Library of Psychology" series is available upon request.

Author : H. J. Eysenck,S Rachman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135021412

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The Causes and Cures of Neurosis (Psychology Revivals) by H. J. Eysenck,S Rachman Pdf

Originally published in 1965 this book was an introduction to post-Freudian methods of diagnosing and treating neurotics of the time. These methods were known collectively as ‘behaviour therapy’, a term indicating their derivation from modern behaviourism, learning theory, and conditioning principles. In the early twentieth century John B. Watson pointed out that ‘psychology, as the behaviourist views it, is a purely objective experimental branch of natural science. Its theoretical goal is the prediction and control of behaviour.’ Behaviour therapy attempts to extend this control to the field of neurotic disorders, and in doing so it makes use of experimental laboratory findings, and of theories based on these. It was seen as the very opposite of the position taken by psychoanalysis. The authors believed that, by the late twentieth century, behaviour therapy would be ‘firmly established as one of the most important, if not the most important, weapon in the hands of psychiatrists and clinical psychologists’.

Author : Karen Horney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136341298

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Neurosis and Human Growth by Karen Horney Pdf

In Neurosis and Human Growth, Dr. Horney discusses the neurotic process as a special form of the human development, the antithesis of healthy growth. She unfolds the different stages of this situation, describing neurotic claims, the tyranny or inner dictates and the neurotic's solutions for relieving the tensions of conflict in such emotional attitudes as domination, self-effacement, dependency, or resignation. Throughout, she outlines with penetrating insight the forces that work for and against the person's realization of his or her potentialities. First Published in 1950. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Otto Fenichel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134969579

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The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis by Otto Fenichel Pdf

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.

Author : Wolfgang Giegerich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000062380

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Neurosis by Wolfgang Giegerich Pdf

Psychoanalysis began over a century ago as a treatment for neurosis. Rooted in the positivistic mindset of the medicine from which it stemmed, it trained its empiricist gaze directly upon the symptoms of the malaise, only to be seduced into attributing it to causes as numerous as there are aspects of human experience. Edifying as this was for our understanding of the life of the psyche, it left the sickness of the soul that was its actual subject matter, the neurosis which it was supposed to be about, out of its purview. The crux of this problem was of a conceptual nature. As psychology increasingly gave up on its constituting concept, its concept of soul, it succumbed to the same extent to treating its patients without an adequate concept of what both it and neurosis were about. Attention was paid to mishaps and traumas, the vicissitudes of development, and the Oedipus complex. But neurosis, according to the thesis of this ground-breaking book, comes from the soul, even is soul; the soul in its untruth. Indeed, both it and the modern field of psychology are successors of the soul-forms that preceded them, religion and metaphysics, with the difference that psychology's reluctance to recognize and take responsibility for its status as such has been matched by the neurotic soul's clinging to obsolete metaphysical categories even as the often quite ordinary life disappointments of its patients are inflated with absolute importance. The folie à deux has been on a massive scale. Owing their provenance to the supplement they each provide the other, psychology and neurosis are entwined in a Gordian knot, the cutting of which requires insight into the logic that pervades both. Taking up this sword, Giegerich exposes and critiques the metaphysics that neurosis indulges in even as he returns psychology to the soul, not, of course, to the soul as some no longer credible metaphysical hypostasis, but as the logically negative life of the mind and power of thought. Using several fairy tales as models for the logic of neurosis, he brilliantly analyses its enchanting background processes, exposing thereby, in a most lively and thoroughgoing manner, the spiteful cunning by which the neurotic soul, against its already existing better judgement, betrays its own truth. Topics include the historicity of neurosis, its soulful purpose as a general cultural phenomenon, its internal logic, functioning, and enabling conditions, as well as the Sacred Festival drama character of symptomatic suffering, the theology of neurosis, and ‘the neurotic’ as the figure of modernity's exemplary man. A collection of vignettes descriptive of various kinds of neurotic presentation routinely met with in the consulting room is also included in an appendix under the heading, ‘Neurotic Traps.’

Author : Eduard Hitschmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Neuroses
ISBN : OCLC:757236061

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Freud's Theories of the Neuroses by Eduard Hitschmann Pdf

Author : Horney, Karen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136342486

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Self-Analysis by Horney, Karen Pdf

First Published in 1999. Psychoanalysis first developed as a method of therapy in the strict medical sense. Freud had discovered that certain circumscribed disorders that have no discernible organic basis-such as hysterical convulsions, phobias, depressions, drug addictions, functional stomach upsets --can be cured by uncovering the unconscious factors that underlie them. In the course of time disturbances of this kind were summarily called neurotic. Therefore humility as well as hope is required in any discussion of the possibility of psychoanalytic self-examination. It is the object of this book to raise this question seriously, with all due consideration for the difficulties involved.

Author : Dr. Eduard Hitschmann
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1330413040

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Freud's Theories of the Neuroses by Dr. Eduard Hitschmann Pdf

Excerpt from Freud's Theories of the Neuroses The motives that led me to believe there is a need for a summary of the Freudian investigations have only been strengthened during its preparation. The book is intended to serve as an introduction as well as an incentive to the study of Freud's works and the application of the psycho-analytic methods; it aims at separating from the ranks of the indifferent and antagonistic those whose position is due to insufficient or erroneous information; finally it is desired that this hook by pointing out the unsolved problems of the theory may further their solution. Later editions will have to take into consideration the progress or modifications as well as the new views arising from them. I am greatly indebted to Professor Freud for his revision and many suggestions and to Dr. O. Rank for his collaboration in preparing the book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Michael Argyle
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483286471

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Lay Theories by Michael Argyle Pdf

Lay theories - the informal, common-sense explanations people give for particular social behaviours - are often very different from formal 'scientific' explanations of what actually happens. While they have been studied in the past, this is the first attempt to review, in detail, the nature of these beliefs. More specifically, it is the first study to consider such fundamental questions as the structure, aetiology, stability and consequence of lay theories about a range of topics. Each chapter covers a different area, such as psychology, psychiatry, medicine, economics, statistics, law and education.

Author : Franz Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Ego (Psychology)
ISBN : UOM:39015001398778

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The Psychoanalysis of the Total Personality by Franz Alexander Pdf

Author : Dr Eduard Hitschmann
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0331766523

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Freud's Theories of the Neuroses (Classic Reprint) by Dr Eduard Hitschmann Pdf

Excerpt from Freud's Theories of the Neuroses Consciousness and the Unconscious. Common Meaning of Unconscious. Hypnosis and double-consciousness. The Unconscious in Hysteria. Resistance and am Genesis and Content of the Real Unconscious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : C. G. Jung
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : EAN:8596547092216

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The Theory of Psychoanalysis by C. G. Jung Pdf

The Theory of Psychoanalysis provides an insightful overview of Jung's scientific beliefs around the time that he and Freud split in their psychoanalytic work. Anybody would be engaged by Jung's attribution of human motivation to passionate desire.

Author : Otto Fenichel
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415051509

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The psychoanalytic theory of neurosis by Otto Fenichel Pdf

Anniversary edition of Fenichel's classic text The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis, with an introduction by Leo Rangell which clearly sets Fenichel's work in context seeing him as a worthy heir to Freud.