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Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction Daniel Pick (Professor of History, Birkbeck College, University of London)

Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction By Daniel Pick (Professor of History, Birkbeck College, University of London)

Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction by Daniel Pick (Professor of History, Birkbeck College, University of London)


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Psychoanalysis has been hailed as an indispensible starting point for understanding neuroses and psychoses. In this Very Short Introduction, Daniel Pick offers an account of the present-day practice of analysis, highlighting the benefits, whilst also shedding light on the problems, risks and failings in the long history of the movement.

Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction Summary

Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction by Daniel Pick (Professor of History, Birkbeck College, University of London)

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. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction Reviews

Recommended by the Institute of Psychoanalysis * Institute of Psychoanalysis Website *
an honest, direct, informative and useful book. * Christopher Bollas, British psychoanalyst and writer *

About Daniel Pick (Professor of History, Birkbeck College, University of London)

Daniel Pick is a psychoanalyst and historian. He is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, a fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and of the Royal Historical Society. He is also an editor of History Workshop Journal, is on the editorial board of the New Library of Psychoanalysis, and a member of the advisory board of Psychoanalysis and History and Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture.

Table of Contents

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

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GOR007035388
9780199226818
0199226814
Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction by Daniel Pick (Professor of History, Birkbeck College, University of London)
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Paperback
Oxford University Press
20150723
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