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.
1: Introduction
2: How psychoanalysis began
3: A case of obsessional neurosis
4: Oedipus
5: Analytic space, time, and technique
6: Politics and upheavals
7: Innovations and controversies
8: Unconscious dramas
9: Concluding remarks
Notes
Further reading
Index
"Recommended by the Institute of Psychoanalysis" - Institute of Psychoanalysis Website
"an honest, direct, informative and useful book." - Christopher Bollas, British psychoanalyst and writer
ISBN : 9780199226818
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