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Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction
Daniel Pick
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Description for Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction
Paperback. 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. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 111 x 11. Weight in Grams: 126.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Very Short Introductions
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199226818
SKU
V9780199226818
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About Daniel Pick
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction
an honest, direct, informative and useful book.
Christopher Bollas, British psychoanalyst and writer
Recommended by the Institute of Psychoanalysis
Institute of Psychoanalysis Website
Christopher Bollas, British psychoanalyst and writer
Recommended by the Institute of Psychoanalysis
Institute of Psychoanalysis Website