Fact And Fantasy In Freudian Theory

Author : Paul Kline
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317975952
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fact and Fantasy in Freudian Theory (RLE: Freud) written by Paul Kline and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1972, this second edition in 1981 was fully revised and updated to cover recent developments in the field at the time. Fact and Fantasy in Freudian Theory was written to answer many questions and criticisms surrounding psychoanalysis. How much, if any, of Freudian theory is verifiable according to the usual criteria of scientific enquiry? Much work had been carried out at the time to discover which parts of Freudian theory are verifiable and which insupportable by experiment. In this book Dr Kline surveys this vast body of work. He takes, one by one, the central postulates of Freudian psychology and discusses the experiments which have been performed to test them. He scrutinizes each test, examines its methodology and its findings and weighs up its value. For some of the theories, it will be seen, there is no evidence whatsoever; for others, on the other hand, there is impressive and sometimes incontrovertible experimental support – for example, for the theory of repression. This work will continue to be an invaluable, highly detailed reference work for those involved with Freud’s work, and a book of great interest to those concerned with the method of psychological enquiry in general.

Author : Paul Kline
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fact and Fantasy in Freudian Theory written by Paul Kline and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1972, this second edition in 1981 was fully revised and updated to cover recent developments in the field at the time. Fact and Fantasy in Freudian Theory was written to answer many questions and criticisms surrounding psychoanalysis. How much, if any, of Freudian theory is verifiable according to the usual criteria of scientific enquiry? Much work had been carried out at the time to discover which parts of Freudian theory are verifiable and which insupportable by experiment. In this book Dr Kline surveys this vast body of work. He takes, one by one, the central postulates of Freudian psychology and discusses the experiments which have been performed to test them. He scrutinizes each test, examines its methodology and its findings and weighs up its value. For some of the theories, it will be seen, there is no evidence whatsoever; for others, on the other hand, there is impressive and sometimes incontrovertible experimental support for example, for the theory of repression. This work will continue to be an invaluable, highly detailed reference work for those involved with Freud s work, and a book of great interest to those concerned with the method of psychological enquiry in general.

Author : Sidney Gillmore McKenzie Lee
Publisher : Harmondsworth : Penguin Education
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dreams and Dreaming written by Sidney Gillmore McKenzie Lee and published by Harmondsworth : Penguin Education. This book was released on 1973 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hans Eysenck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351523295
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire written by Hans Eysenck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Eysenck was one of the best-known research psychologists of the twentieth century. Respected as a prolific author, he was unafraid to address controversial topics. In Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire, he places himself at the center of the debate on psychoanalytic theory, challenging the state of Freudian theory and modern-day psychoanalytic practice and questioning the premises on which psychoanalysis is based. In so doing, Eysenck illustrates the shortcomings of both psychoanalysis as a method of curing neurotic and psychotic behaviors, and of the theory of dreams and their interpretation. He also analyzes Freud's influence on anthropology and his alleged contributions to science.While books about Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis abound, most have been written by followers and acolytes and are therefore uncritical, unaware of alternative theories, or written as weapons in a war of propaganda. Others are long and highly technical, and therefore valuable only to students and professionals. Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire, on the other hand, was written with the non-professional in mind, and is for those who wish to know what modern scholarship has discovered about the truth or falsity of Freudian doctrines.Graced with an incisive new preface by Sybil Eysenck exploring her husband's motivation for writing the book, Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire is an authoritative and convincing work that exposes the underlying contradictions in Freudian theory, as well as the limitations and errors of psychoanalysis.

Author : Malcolm A. Jeeves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behavioural Sciences written by Malcolm A. Jeeves and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Vannoy Adams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135447535
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fantasy Principle written by Michael Vannoy Adams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-18 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fantasy Principle makes a strong case for a new school of psychoanalysis - the school of 'imaginal psychology'. It radically affirms the centrality of imagination and emphasizes the transformative impact of images.

Author : Jean-Georges Schimek
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135191891
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memory, Myth, and Seduction written by Jean-Georges Schimek and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory, Myth, and Seduction reveals the development and evolution of Jean-Georges Schimek's thinking on unconscious fantasy and the interpretive process derived from a close reading of Freud as well as contemporary psychoanalysis. Contributing richly to North American psychoanalytic thought, Schimek challenges local views from the perspective of continental discourse. A practicing psychoanalyst, teacher, and consummate Freud scholar, Schimek sought to clarify Freud's concepts and theories and to disentangle complexities borne of inconsistencies in Freud's assumptions and expositions. This book is divided thematically into three sections. The first concerns fantasy and interpretation as they play out in the analytic situation, and the manner in which analyst and patient coconstruct meaning and reconstruct and recover memory. The second consists of two seminal papers which provide the sequence of steps in the five revisions in Freud's seduction theory. Schimek's careful scholarship lays out the data of Freud's writing, which allows one to draw one's own conclusions about the implications of the changes in the theory that he made. In the third, more theoretical section, he provides a foundation for understanding many of today's discussions about unconscious fantasy, dreaming, remembering, consciousness, affect, self-reflection, mentalization, and implicit relational knowing. He clarifies and illustrates Freud's original formulations (and their inherent problems) through a careful reading of sections of The Interpretation of Dreams, and a study of Freud's famous Signorelli parapraxis. Skillfully arranged and carefully edited by Deborah Browning and including a foreword by Alan Bass, this collection of Schimek's published and unpublished papers will be of interest to practicing psychoanalysts, psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapists, and students of the history of ideas and philosophy who have a particular interest in fantasy, interpretation, and Freud.

Author : Barry J. McGurk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Applying Psychology to Imprisonment written by Barry J. McGurk and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book brings together thirty papers by psychologists, each of which in different ways attempts to increase our understanding of the problems associated with imprisonment. It is intended as a resource for psychologists, but will also be of value both to those who work in prisons and the general reader wishing to learn about this application of the discipline. Seven of the studies are theoretical in nature ...The remaining twenty-three papers are by psychologists employed within the Prison Service. Most of these reports have been circulated internally...They cover three areas; dealing with the selection and training of staff, the treatment of inmates, and the kind of research on which psychologists base their advice to management."--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Reuben Fine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317976126
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freud (RLE: Freud) written by Reuben Fine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, originally published in 1963, Dr Fine sets out to describe what Freud said, and to re-evaluate his views critically in the light of the best knowledge of the time. Freud’s numerous changes of view, his constant searching for the truth wherever it might lead him, as well as his resolute adherence to certain hard-won positions once he had achieved them, are all skilfully traced. Freud’s intellectual Odyssey is divided into four periods. From 1886 to 1895 he was a neurologist investigating hysteria and other ‘nervous’ disorders. Then came his self-analysis, from 1896 to 1899, the real matrix from which psycho-analysis grew. The first psycho-analytic system of psychology was developed in the period from 1900 to 1914. The remainder of his life, from 1914 to 1939, was devoted to the elaboration of ego psychology, and heart of contemporary psycho-analysis. Dr Fine undertook, in writing this book, the formidable task of examining the whole body of Freud’s thought, to clarify what he said, and to review his ideas critically in the light of the best available existing knowledge. As he says ‘In this process of criticism I have tried to specify which aspects of Freud have stood the test of time and which have not.’ ‘So far as I can see no one has ever before taken the trouble to ask: "What did Freud actually say? How does what Freud said stand up in terms of what we now know?"’ In answering these questions, Dr Fine develops a major thesis that all modern psycho-analysis derives from Freud, though it has moved far in many different directions. The contention is that emphasis on schools is misleading and has obscured the actual historical growth of the science. As he states in his Preface to this volume, Dr Fine’s conviction is: ‘By building on Freud’s fundamental insights, we can move on most readily to empirical research and thus construct a more satisfactory science of psychology.’

Author : Glenn Daniel Wilson
Publisher : Baltimore, MD. : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Variant Sexuality written by Glenn Daniel Wilson and published by Baltimore, MD. : Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: