Toward A Unified Psychoanalytic Theory

Author : Morris N Eagle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000405071

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Toward a Unified Psychoanalytic Theory by Morris N Eagle Pdf

This book aims to integrate different psychoanalytic schools and relevant research findings into an integrated psychoanalytic theory of the mind. A main claim explored here, is that a revised and expanded ego psychology constitutes the strongest foundation not only for a unified psychoanalytic theory, but also for the integration of relevant research findings from other disciplines. Sophisticated yet accessible, the book includes a description of the basic tenets of ego psychology and necessary correctives and revisions. It also discusses research and theory on interpersonal understanding, capacity for inhibition, defense, delay of gratification, autonomous ego aims and motives, affect regulation, the nature of psychopathology; and the implications of a revised and expanded ego psychology for approaches to treatment. The book will appeal to readers who are interested in psychoanalysis, the nature of the mind, the nature of psychopathology, and the implications of theoretical formulations and research findings for approaches to treatment. As such, it will also be of great value on graduate and training courses for psychoanalysis.

Author : Bernard Brandchaft,Shelley Doctors,Dorienne Sorter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135840440

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Toward an Emancipatory Psychoanalysis by Bernard Brandchaft,Shelley Doctors,Dorienne Sorter Pdf

Best known for his contributions to the development of contemporary intersubjectivity theory, Bernard Brandchaft has dedicated a career to the advancement of psychoanalytic theory and practice. Continually searching for a theoretical viewpoint that would satisfactorily explain the clinical phenomena he was encountering, his curiosity eventually led him to the work of Heinz Kohut and the then-emerging school of self psychology. However, seemingly always one step ahead of the crowd, Brandchaft constantly reformulated his ideas about and investigations into the intersubjective nature of human experiences. Many of the chapters in this volume have never before been published. Together, they articulate the evolution of Brandchaft's thinking along the road toward an emancipatory psychoanalysis. Moreover, commentary from Shelley Doctors and Dorienne Sorter – in addition to Bernard Brandchaft himself – examines the clinical implications of the theoretical shifts that he advocated and provides a contemporary context for the case material and conclusions each paper presents. These theoretical shifts, both clear and subtle, are thereby elucidated to form the grand narrative of a truly visionary psychoanalytic thinker.

Author : John E. Gedo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317707172

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Beyond Interpretation by John E. Gedo Pdf

Hailed as "important book certain to stir extended psychoanalytic debate" (American Journal of Psychiatry) on publication in 1979, Gedo's Beyond Interpretation set forth a radically new theoretical framework and clinical agenda for modern psychoanalysis. The theoretical framework revolved around Gedo's reconceptualization of human personality as a hierarchy of personal aims culminating in a "self-organization." The clinical agenda followed from the need for interventions that regularly went "beyond interpretation" in helping patients cope with primitive illusions, failures of integration, and traumatization. In this extensive revision of the 1979 text, Gedo refines his original formulations in light of the empirical findings and clinical advances of the past 15 years.

Author : Peter Buckley
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1988-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780814710968

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Essential Papers on Psychosis by Peter Buckley Pdf

This book brings together important psychoanalytic papers which shed light on the psychological nature of psychotic states and address aspects of their psychotherapy. This book includes selections from the works of Harold F. Searles, Edith Jacobsen, Victor Tausk, Robert C. Bak, Nathaniel J. London, Norman Cameron, and others and offers a critical essay by Peter Buckley.

Author : Roy Richard Grinker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015026304850

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Toward a Unified Theory of Human Behavior by Roy Richard Grinker Pdf

Author : Fred Busch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000834574

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Psychoanalysis at the Crossroads by Fred Busch Pdf

In this clear and thoughtful book, an international group of distinguished authors explore the central issues and future directions facing psychoanalytic theory and practice. The book explores four main questions in the development of psychoanalysis: what psychoanalysis is as an endeavour now and what it may be in the future; the effect of social issues on psychoanalysis and of psychoanalysis on social issues, such as race and gender; the importance of psychoanalytic institutes on shaping future psychoanalytic theory and practice; and the likely major issues that will be shaping psychoanalysis in years to come. Including contributions from within every school of psychoanalytic thought, this book is essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and all who are curious about the future directions of the profession.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Toward a Unified Theory of Human Behavior by Anonim Pdf

Author : Morris N. Eagle
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781003851356

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Subjective Experience by Morris N. Eagle Pdf

Morris N. Eagle explores the understanding and role of subjective experience in the disciplines of psychology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy of mind. Elaborating how different understandings of subjective experience give rise to very different theories of the nature of the mind, Eagle then explains how these shape clinical practices. In particular, Eagle addresses the strong tendency in the disciplines concerned with the nature of the mind to overlook the centrality of subjective experience in one's life, to view it with suspicion, and to reduce it to neural processes. Describing examples of research in which subjective experience is a central variable, Eagle provides an outline of a model in which the dichotomy of conscious and unconsious is supplemented by subjective experience as a continuum. This book is essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, psychologists and anyone wishing to gain a deeper understanding of the importance of theories of the mind to therapeutic practice.

Author : Roy Richard Grinker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:49015000603788

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Toward a Unified Theory of Human Behavior. With the Assistance of Helen MacGill Hughes by Roy Richard Grinker Pdf

Author : Jerome C. Wakefield
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000643350

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Freud's Argument for the Oedipus Complex by Jerome C. Wakefield Pdf

In this close reading of Freudian theory, Jerome C. Wakefield reconstructs Freud’s argument for the Oedipal theory of the psychoneuroses, placing the case of Little Hans into a philosophy-of-science context and critically rethinking the epistemological foundations of psychoanalysis. Wakefield logically evaluates four central Freudian arguments: the "undirected anxiety" argument which contends that Hans suffered from anxiety before he developed his horse phobia; the "day the horse fell down" argument where, engaging in some scholarly detective work, Wakefield resolves a century-old dispute between behaviorists and psychoanalysts about when Hans witnessed a frightening horse accident; the "N=1 sexual repression" argument that the trajectory of Hans’s sexual desires matches the Oedipal theory’s predictions; and lastly, the "detailed symptom characteristics" argument that the Oedipal theory is needed to understand otherwise inexplicable details of Hans’s symptoms. Wakefield demonstrates that, although Freud’s arguments are brilliantly conceived, he misread the facts of the Hans case and failed to support the Oedipal theory as judged by his own stated evidential standards. However, this failure creates an opportunity for renewed consideration of psychoanalysis’s distinctive contribution: the understanding of an individual’s unique meaning system and confrontation with meanings outside of focal awareness in order to reshape an individual’s fate. This book will be of interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists alike, and will prove essential for scholars working in the fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy of science, and the history of psychiatry.

Author : Vaia Tsolas,Christine Anzieu-Premmereur
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000907346

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A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Contemporary Search for Pleasure by Vaia Tsolas,Christine Anzieu-Premmereur Pdf

This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the malaise of the contemporary individual by returning the economic point of view of Freudian thinking, the concept of satisfaction, libido, and pleasure–unpleasure principle to their rightful place as the motivating forces of human existence. For Freud, pleasure stands apart from other human experiences, side by side with unpleasure, always a bonus in the search for satisfaction of the pleasure principle and beyond. Along with libido, emotional fulfillment, and the capacities for sublimation and play, pleasure has not been given enough attention in the psychoanalytic literature. The editors of this book address this lack and highlight the importance of examining today’s social and individual malaise through these specific lenses of inquiry. It is particularly timely and important today to address this lack, and thereby examine the impact of the social phenomena of the pandemic, the crises of ideals and virtuality on the subject who feels in a state of constant emergency, overwhelmed, addicted, and delibidinalized. With contributions from across psychoanalysis, this book is essential reading for psychoanalysts in training and in practice who want to understand how the modern world has shaped our understanding of pleasure.

Author : Stephen A. Mitchell,Lewis Aron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135889968

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Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 14 by Stephen A. Mitchell,Lewis Aron Pdf

Over the course of the past 15 years, there has been a vast sea change in American psychoanalysis. It takes the form of a broad movement away from classical psychoanalytic theorizing grounded in Freud's drive theory toward models of mind and development grounded in object relations concepts. In clinical practice, there has been a corresponding movement away from the classical principles of neutrality, abstinence and anonymity toward an interactive vision of the analytic situation that places the analytic relationship, with its powerful, reciprocal affective currents, in the foreground. These developments have been evident in virtually all schools of psychoanalysis in America, from the most traditional to the most radical. The wellspring of these innovations is the work of a group of psychoanalysts who have struggled to integrate aspects of interpersonal psychoanalysis, various British object relations theories, and psychoanalytic feminism. Although not self-selected as a school, these theorists have generated a distinct tradition of psychoanalytic thought and clinical practice that has become extremely influential within psychoanalysis in the United States. Relational Psychoanalysis: The Emergence of a Tradition brings together for the first time the seminal papers of the major authors within this tradition. Each paper is accompanied by an introduction, in which the editors place it in its historical context, and a new afterward, in which the author suggests subsequent developments in his or her thinking. This book is an invaluable resource for any clinical practitioner, teacher or student of psychoanalysis interested in exploring the exciting developments of recent years.

Author : Doris Brothers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135469023

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Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty by Doris Brothers Pdf

Since trauma is a thoroughly relational phenomenon, it is highly unpredictable, and cannot be made to fit within the scientific framework Freud so admired. In Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis, Doris Brothers urges a return to a trauma-centered psychoanalysis. Making use of relational systems theory, she shows that experiences of uncertainty are continually transformed by the regulatory processes of everyday life such as feeling, knowing, forming categories, making decisions, using language, creating narratives, sensing time, remembering, forgetting, and fantasizing. Insofar as trauma destroys the certainties that organize psychological life, it plunges our relational systems into chaos and sets the stage for the emergence of rigid, life-constricting relational patterns. These trauma-generated patterns, which often involve denial of sameness and difference, the creation of complexity-reducing dualities, and the transformation of certainty into certitude, figure prominently in virtually all of the complaints for which patients seek analytic treatment. Analysts, she claims, are no more strangers to trauma than are their patients. Using in-depth clinical illustrations, Dr. Brothers demonstrates how a mutual desire to heal and to be healed from trauma draws patients and analysts into their analytic relationships. She recommends the reconceptualization of what has heretofore been considered transference and countertransference in terms of the transformation of experienced uncertainty. In her view the increased ability of both analytic partners to live with uncertainty is the mark of a successful treatment. Dr. Brothers’ perspective sheds fresh light on a variety of topics of great general interest to analysts as well as many of their patients, such as gender, the acceptance of death, faith, cult-like training programs, and burnout. Her discussions of these topics are enlivened by references to contemporary cinema and theatre.

Author : Roy Schafer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0300027613

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A New Language for Psychoanalysis by Roy Schafer Pdf

Should be of considerable interest to a wider public, since it proposes a radical reformulation of psychoanalytical theory which, if accepted, would render outmoded almost all the analytical jargon that has crept into the language of progressive, enlightened post-Freudian people.-Charles Rycroft, The New York Review of Books Schafer's arguments have considerable cogency. The tendency to over-theorize so that the translation of abstractions into the language of ordinary discourse between analyst and patient has become increasingly difficult is a fault; Schafer goes a long way towards redressing it, and his efforts to include meaning and the person in the form of his language is an achievement.-Michael Fordham, The Times Higher Education Supplement

Author : Lewis Aron,Karen E. Starr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780415529983

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A Psychotherapy for the People by Lewis Aron,Karen E. Starr Pdf

This book discusses redefining psychoanalysis in relation to psychotherapy, modifying psychoanalytic education, and recognizing its continued biases.