Psychoanalysis
Subtitle: A Critical Introduction
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: June 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780745619798
Subjects: Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory; Psychotherapy; Psychology; Movements - Psychoanalysis; Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior; Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalytic counseling; Psychotherapy - General; Psychoanalysis
First sentence: These entries, from a contemporary student dictionary, capture well the ambivalent feelings about psychoanalysis held not only by psychologists but also by other professionals and academics.
Description: An accessible introduction to the main schools of psychoanalysis and the practice of psychotherapy, this book emphasises the complexity of psychoanalysis, and argues that psychoanalysis is both a depth psychology and a developmental psychology.