Introducing Psychoanalysis

Author : Susan Budd
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9781583918876
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introducing Psychoanalysis written by Susan Budd and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing Psychoanalysis brings together leading analysts to explain what psychoanalysis is and how it has developed, providing a fascinating overview of the wide variety of psychoanalytic ideas that are current in Britain today.

Author : Ivan Ward
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 184831874X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introducing Psychoanalysis written by Ivan Ward and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideas of psychoanalysis have permeated Western culture. It is the dominant paradigm through which we understand our emotional lives, and Freud still finds himself an iconic figure. Yet despite the constant stream of anti-Freud literature, little is known about contemporary psychoanalysis. Introducing Psychoanalysis redresses the balance. It introduces psychoanalysis as a unified 'theory of the unconscious' with a variety of different theoretical and therapeutic approaches, explains some of the strange ways in which psychoanalysts think about the mind, and is one of the few books to connect psychoanalysis to everyday life and common understanding of the world. How do psychoanalysts conceptualize the mind? Why was Freud so interested in sex? Is psychoanalysis a science? How does analysis work? In answering these questions, this book offers new insights into the nature of psychoanalytic theory and original ways of describing therapeutic practice. The theory comes alive through Oscar Zarate's insightful and daring illustrations, which enlighten the text. In demystifying and explaining psychoanalysis, this book will be of interest to students, teachers and the general public.

Author : Ivan Ward
Publisher : Totem Books
ISBN 13 : 9781840467567
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introducing Psychoanalysis written by Ivan Ward and published by Totem Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing Psychoanalysis asks important questions like: Why was Freud so interested in sex? How does analysis work? Psychoanalytic terms such as Ego, libido and neurosis have become a part of our everyday vocabulary. But what is modern psychoanalysis? This book introduces psychoanalysis as a unified theory of the unconscious with a variety of different approaches. It is one of the few books to connect psychoanalysis to daily life and common understanding of the world.

Author : Anthony W. Bateman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134842074
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Psychoanalysis written by Anthony W. Bateman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for a concise, comprehensive guide to the main principles and practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy has become pressing as the psychoanalytic movement has expanded and diversified. An introductory text suitable for a wide range of courses, this lively, widely referenced account presents the core features of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice in an easily assimilated, but thought-provoking manner. Illustrated throughout with clinical examples, it provides an up-to-date source of reference for a wider range of mental health professionals as well as those training in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy or counselling.

Author : Daniel Pick
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191665002
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction written by Daniel Pick and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception, psychoanalysis has been hailed as a revolutionary theory of how the mind works, whilst some of its ideas such as the Oedipus complex have become part of everyday conversation. In Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction, Daniel Pick offers a lucid, lively, and wide-ranging survey of psychoanalysis. This book offers the reader a flavour of what it might be like to enter treatment, and suggests the possible surprises that can await both analyst and patient, as well as the potential benefits. Yet whilst Freud's writings have shaped the way many of us understand dreams, desires, and destructiveness, as well as anxieties, blunders, and guilt, numerous critics have warned of the dangerous methods and time-bound assumptions of psychoanalysis, doubted the efficacy of its drawn-out methods, and dismissed its core claims as pseudo-science. Looking at modern ideas of the self, exploring the nature of unconscious aspects of relationships, and considering how psychoanalysis has evolved, Pick ponders the particular challenges now facing the analytic profession, and shows why psychoanalysis remains an important resource for investigating the mind, its creative functioning and many afflictions. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Jane Milton
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 0857020595
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short Introduction to Psychoanalysis written by Jane Milton and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electronic Inspection Copy available here "The best simply got better. The first edition of this book was already quite simply the best introduction to psychoanalysis ever written and has been appropriately extremely popular with teachers and students alike. The thoroughly updated second edition retains all the powerful features of the first including its remarkable clarity and accessibility. The field will be greatly indebted to these authors for many years." - Professor Peter Fonagy, University College London A Short Introduction to Psychoanalysis offers a user-friendly introduction to arguably the most misunderstood of all the psychological therapies. This fully updated and revised second edition explains what psychoanalysis really is and provides the reader with an overview of its basic concepts, historical development, critiques and research base. Demonstrating the far reaching influence of psychoanalysis, the authors - all practicing psychoanalysts - describe how its concepts have been applied beyond the consulting room and examine its place within the spectrum of other psychological theories. The text is enlivened by numerous clinical examples. New to this edition, the book o discusses parent infant psychotherapy and mentalization-based therapy (MBT) o further investigates psychotherapy in the NHS and the IAPT programme, with more on the debate between CBT and analytic approaches o includes more on dreaming and attachment theory, with added examples o includes new research studies and addresses the new field of psychosocial studies. This down-to-earth guide provides the ideal `way-in' to the subject for new trainees. For anyone thinking of becoming a psychoanalyst, the book also provides information on the training process and the structure of the profession.

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis written by Sigmund Freud and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents twenty-eight lectures in which Sigmund Freud sets forth with a frankness almost startling the difficulties and limitations of psychoanalysis, and also describes its main methods and results as only a master and originator of a new school of thought can do. (PsycINFO Database Record).

Author : Ian Craib
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745619781
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalysis written by Ian Craib and published by Polity. This book was released on 2001-06-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychoanalysis: A Critical Introduction is a clearly written and accessible introduction to the main schools of psychoanalysis and the practice of psychotherapy. Unusually, it is written by an academic sociologist specializing in social theory who is also a practising psychotherapist. Craib emphasizes the complexity of psychoanalysis -- an approach that works at many different levels. The unique contribution of this perspective is to understand the creativity of the individual. Psychoanalyis is less about 'curing' mental illness or making people happy, Craib suggests, and more about the understanding of individual lives and about the importance of thinking as well as feeling. Craib argues that psychoanalysis is a depth psychology and a developmental psychology, as well as enabling an understanding of everyday feelings and thoughts. He explores the work of Freud, Klein, Lacan, the object-relations theorists, attachment theory and American self psychology, and feminist developments of Freud's work. In the final section he offers an account of psychoanalytic practice as a way of opening up a life and allowing it to develop in different directions, and of enabling people to deal with the inevitable failures, contradictions and disappointments of being alive. This fascinating book will bridge the gap between academic textbooks on psychoanalysis and the books written primarily for those training in the field. It will be of major interest to students of psychology, social psychology, sociology and social theory, as well as to psychoanalytic practitioners

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalasys For Beginners written by Sigmund Freud and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Psychoanalysis is a set of lectures given by Sigmund Freud 1915-17, which became the most popular and widely translated of his works. The 28 lectures offered an elementary stock-taking of his views of the unconscious, dreams, and the theory of neuroses at the time of writing, as well as offering some new technical material to the more advanced reader. In these three-part Introductory Lectures, by beginning with a discussion of Freudian slips in the first part, moving on to dreams in the second, and only tackling the neuroses in the third, Freud succeeded in presenting his ideas as firmly grounded in the common-sense world of everyday experience._x000D_ Freud built his complete method of psycho-analysis around his dream theories. In the book Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners Freud explains the buried meanings inside dreams, particularly the drive and the connection between the unconscious and conscious, blocked sexual cravings, and the significance of dreams to our overall well-being._x000D_ Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the father of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. In creating psychoanalysis, Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discovered transference, establishing its central role in the analytic process. Freud's redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the central tenet of psychoanalytical theory. His analysis of dreams as wish-fulfillments provided him with models for the clinical analysis of symptom formation and the mechanisms of repression as well as for elaboration of his theory of the unconscious.

Author : Stephen Frosh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 134927643X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Psychoanalysis written by Stephen Frosh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999-07-21 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychoanalysis has had a profound influence on twentieth-century thought in a wide variety of areas, from psychology and psychiatry to sociology, literature, feminism and politics. Most importantly, it offers insights into the relationship between individual subjectivity and social relations, making it a key discipline for understanding the links between social phenomena and personal experience. Since its first publication in 1987, The Politics of Psychoanalysis has been widely recognised as one of the best introductions to psychoanalytic theory from the point of view of its relevance for social relations. As well as describing Freud's work, it examines the basic assumptions and social implications of a broad spectrum of post-Freudian psychoanalytic thought, especially object relations, Kleinian and Lacanian theory. Feminist and critical psychoanalytic approaches are explored, along with questions of psychoanalytic practice andd its implications for social and personal change. For this second edition, the book has been thoroughly revised, with updated accounts of the theories covered in the first edition, plus new material on contemporary feminist psychoanalytic work and on the engagement of psychoanalysis with postmodernism. The result is a book that combines a lucid introduction to theory with a radical examination of the value of psychoanalysis for therapeutic and social practice.