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Containing Anxiety in Institutions: Selected Essays, volume 1
Isabel E. P. Menzies- Lyth
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Paperback. Isabel Menzies Lyth has formulated a way of thinking about social structures as forms of defence. The author extends her analytic range to cover themes of children in long-stay hospitals and day-care institutions, and the maternal role today. Num Pages: 269 pages. BIC Classification: JMAF; JMH; MQC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
Isabel Menzies Lyth has formulated a way of thinking about social structures as forms of defence - as ways of avoiding experiences of anxiety, guilt, doubt and uncertainty - that is as challenging as it is persuasive. She believes that the individual is engaged in a lifelong struggle against primitive anxiety. A psychoanalyst writing in the tradition of Klein and Bion, her writings span more than thirty years of research in applied psychoanalysis and are here collected in the first of two volumes. In her classical paper on nursing, she writes: "By the nature of her profession ... Read more
Isabel Menzies Lyth has formulated a way of thinking about social structures as forms of defence - as ways of avoiding experiences of anxiety, guilt, doubt and uncertainty - that is as challenging as it is persuasive. She believes that the individual is engaged in a lifelong struggle against primitive anxiety. A psychoanalyst writing in the tradition of Klein and Bion, her writings span more than thirty years of research in applied psychoanalysis and are here collected in the first of two volumes. In her classical paper on nursing, she writes: "By the nature of her profession ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Free Association Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
269
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Condition
New
Weight
373g
Number of Pages
269
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781853430015
SKU
V9781853430015
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About Isabel E. P. Menzies- Lyth
Isabel Menzies Lyth came into psychoanalysis from a background of economics and experimental psychology. She combined part-time private practice as a psychoanalyst with consultancy work and many research projects. A second volume of her essays, Dynamics of the Social, is also published by Free Association Books.
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