"In June 1938, at eighty-two, Freud began writing this terse survey of the fundamentals of psychoanalysis. He marshals here the whole range of psychoanalytic theory and therapy in lucid prose and continues his open-mindedness to new departures, such as the potential of drug therapy. While the book remains unfinished, it covers the essentials of psychoanalysis" -- Back cover.
This fascinating text will appeal to those with an interest in psychology and the work of Sigmund Freud, and it would make for a worthy addition to any personal library.
One of fifteen volumes in the Freud series, this title is part of a plan to generate a non-specialist Freud for a wide readership, which goes beyond the institutional/clinical market.
Freud's early lectures on psychoanalysis treat such topics as dreams, occultism, anxiety, femininity, and instinct.
These three distinct groups are still in existence, but the scientific differences between their members are nowadays much less pronounced (King and Steiner 1991). Analysis through play: an innovative technique Melanie Klein was the ...
Here are the essential ideas of psychoanalytic theory, including Freud's explanations of such concepts as the Id, Ego and Super-Ego, the Death Instinct and Pleasure Principle, along with classic case studies like that of the Wolf Man.
Psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychiatrists, sociologists, cultural historians, Jewish and specifically Holocaust scholars will find this volume compelling.
Freud believed that a medical education was not necessarily useful to, and might even impede, the psychoanalyst, but he met strenuous resistance among his followers, particularly in the United States.