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ISBN10: 185575939X, ISBN13: 9781855759398, [publisher: Taylor & Francis 2003-12-31, London] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]

ISBN10: 185575939X, ISBN13: 9781855759398, [publisher: Taylor & Francis 2003-12-31, London] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]

Karnac Books, Date: 2003. Paperback. New. 350 pages. 8.98x5.75x0.63 inches. 2003. Karnac Books ISBN 185575939X 9781855759398 [GB]

ISBN10: 185575939X, ISBN13: 9781855759398, [publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd] Softcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.
[Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]

ISBN10: 185575939X, ISBN13: 9781855759398, [publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, London] Softcover Paperback. This work presents a complete history of psychoanalysis from its origins in 19th-century medical science to the end of the 20th century. The origins of psychoanalysis as well as the more immediate influences on Freud are explored, as is the way the discipline he founded has developed and changed.Joseph Schwartz first lays out the late Victorian approaches to mental illness and health and explains the context in which Freud's revolution took place. He traces the evolution of Freud's own thought, then shows how and why the rifts and shifts in the analytic community occurred. He then focuses on Freud's colleagues, rivals, successors and detractors - Jung, Adler, Sullivan, Melanie Klein, Erich Fromm to name a few. For once we see how the different schools and interpretations fit together - how they grew in response to each other, and what separate contributions each pioneer made over the last hundred years to create an effective understanding of the world of human subjective experience.Schwartz probes the relationship between psychoanalysis and the natural sciences, creatively exploring the criticism that psychoanalysisis not a 'legitimate' science and successfully reasserts its importance, not simply as a systematic attempt to describe experience, but to understand it. The real question for humans who suffer mental pain is not whether ...
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Karnac Books 2003 Softcover New 350 pages. 8.98x5.75x0.63 inches.

ISBN10: 185575939X, ISBN13: 9781855759398, [publisher: Routledge] Softcover Like New
[Redhill, SURRE, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]