Description
This book provides an account of the chequered course of international psychoanalysis over the last 100 years, with a lucid critical treatment of the major theoretical developments, illustrated by clinical examples drawn from the author's own vast experience.
Table of Contents
Introduction, 1 The clinical foundations of Freud's pleasure, (unpleasure) principle, 2 The theory of repression, 3 Freud's theory of mind reformulated: Beyond the Pleasure Principle, 4 The new schema of the mental apparatus and its antecedents, 5 A short detour around Freud's theories of anxiety 6 The reinterpretation of clinical facts (descriptive data), 7 Psychoses and psychoanalytic theories of development , 8 Theories of narcissistic object relations, 9 On the formal aspects of psychotic phenomena, 10 Theory and technique in psychoanalysis, 11 Is there a way forward?
