Comparative integrative psychoanalysis
Subtitle: a relational perspective for the discipline's second century
By: Brent Willock.
Series: Relational perspectives book series
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boca Raton, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780881634600
Subjects: Psychoanalysis.; Psychoanalysis -- History.
Description: "This exceptionally practical and insightful new text explores the emerging field of comparative-integrative psychoanalysis. It provides an invaluable framework for approaching the currently fractious state of the psychoanalytic discipline, divided as it is into diverse schools of thought, presenting many conceptual challenges. Author Brent Willock considers complex clinical data, making astute inferences and evaluating them with respect to alternative hypotheses, as he articulates the significant problem in the nature of the evolution of analytic thought. Moving beyond the usual borders of psychoanalysis, Willock usefully draws on insights from neighboring disciplines to shed additional light on the core issue."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Revelations from a triptych of dreams; title: Toward integrative understanding; title: Mangy mongrels or marvelous mutts? the question of mixed models; title: Implications for psychoanalytic theory (and organizations); title: Significance for psychoanalytic practice; title: Implications for psychoanalytic education; title: The class struggle; title: The comparative-integrative spirit; title: Last words.