Rescuing Psychoanalysis from Freud and Other Essays in Re-Vision

Rescuing Psychoanalysis from Freud and Other Essays in Re-Vision
ISBN-10
0429904312
ISBN-13
9780429904318
Category
Psychology
Pages
216
Language
English
Published
2018-05-08
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Peter L. Rudnytsky

Description

In his latest groundbreaking book, the author examines the history of psychoanalysis from a resolutely independent perspective. At once spellbinding case histories and meticulously crafted gems of scholarship, Rudnytsky's essays are "re-visions" in that each sheds fresh light on its subject but they are also avowedly "revisionist" in their scepticism towards all forms of psychoanalytic orthodoxy. Beginning with a judicious reappraisal of Freud and ranging in scope from King Lear to contemporary neuroscience, the author treats in depth the lives and work of Ferenczi, Jung, Stekel, Winnicott, Coltart, and Little, each of whom sought to "rescue psychoanalysis" by summoning it to live up to its highest ideals.

Similar books