Book Description
Psychoanalytic theory influenced many facets of 20th century culture, and shows every sign of continuing to have an impact in the 21st. However, in order to sustain this influence it has to adapt to the challenges of out current intellectual environment. This book attempts to build a bridge between psychoanalysis and a dominant perspective in modern psychiatry and psychology: developmental psychopathology. This perspective studies biological, psychological and social influences that act on individuals, shaping their pathways through life. While psychoanalytical perspectives are inherently developmental, this is often left implicit. This book highlights the developmental bases for psychoanalytical ideas, and examines their assumptions and claims in relation to observational and other data gathered within neighboring disciplines. The book reaches back to the work of Freud, and covers North American and European ideas including the Klein-Bion model, the British Object Relations tradition, the work of Kernberg and Kohut as well as modern Relational Psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalytic Theories: Perspectives from Developmental Psychopathology FROM THE PUBLISHER
The purpose of this series is to publish clinical and research based texts of academic excellence in the field. Each title makes a significant contribution and the series is open-ended.
The readership for this title is academics and graduate students in psychoanalysis, together with clinical practitioners, worldwide.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction to this book and to the basic psychoanalytic model
2. Freud
3. The structural approach
4. Modifications and developments of the structural model
5. Introduction to object relations theory
6. The Klein-Bion model
7. The 'Independent' school of British psychoanalysis
8. North American ojbect-relations theorists
9. The interpersonal-relational approach: from Sullivan to Mitchell
10. Introduction to psychoanalytic approaches based in developmental research
11. Bowlby's attachment theory model
12. Schema theory and psychoanalysis
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