Psychoanalysis

Summary: The author provides a lucid, lively, and wide-ranging survey of psychoanalysis while exploring the particular challenges that now face the analytic profession. Offering a flavour of what it might be like to enter treatment, Pick illustrated why psychoanalysis can provide a unique form of therapy and an important resource for investigating the mind, its creative functioning and many afflictions.

Record details

ISBN: 9780199226818
ISBN: 0199226814
Physical Description: print
143 p. ; 18 cm
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-136) and index
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- How psychoanalysis began -- A case of obsessional neurosis -- Oedipus -- Analytic space, time, and technique -- War, politics, and ideas -- Further innovations and controversies -- Unconscious dramas -- The struggle is not yet over -- A note on confidentiality.