100 Years of the IPA: The Centenary History of the International Psychoanalytical Association 1910-2010: Evolution and Change

100 Years of the IPA: The Centenary History of the International Psychoanalytical Association 1910-2010: Evolution and Change
ISBN-10
0429910185
ISBN-13
9780429910180
Category
Psychology
Pages
570
Language
English
Published
2018-02-10
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Peter Loewenberg

Description

This collection of essays on the 100 years of history of the International Psychoanalytical Association provides far more than a chronological account of events. Within its pages, one encounters pioneering presences in the world of psychoanalysis, savours endearing anecdotes, comes across phrases that are both quaint and novel, reads the accounts of various splits and also the emergence of new groups, sees new journals evolve, senses the excitement of fresh discoveries in the field, and partakes in a delightful and thrilling sojourn of thought and praxis. Even more importantly, the book offers a close glimpse of the nuanced dialectic between major psychoanalytic concepts and the sociopolitical environments in which such ideas were germinated, spread, took roots, and further evolved. Travelling from Freud's Vienna to locales as different from each other as the United States and Japan, Uruguay and India, England and Turkey, Brazil and China, Australia and Mexico, psychoanalysis retained its basic core while assimilating local expositions of theory and technique.

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