Wish-hunting in the unconscious : an analysis of psychoanalysis / by Milton Harrington, Institution for Male Defective Delinquents.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrington, Milton, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Psychology, Pathological.

Psychophysiology.

Psychopathology.

Medical Subjects:

Psychoanalysis.

Psychopathology.

Psychophysiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

APA PsycBOOKS.

Place of Publication:

New York : Macmillan Company, 1934.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

"The most pressing ills in our present-day civilization are our mental ills, our unsatisfactory or abnormal forms of thought, feeling, and action. But before we can proceed intelligently in the treatment of these ills, we must know why they occur. We must have a psychopathology before we can hope to have a mental hygiene or a rational therapeutics. But along what lines are we to proceed in the development of our psychopathology? Shall we follow in the footsteps of the psychoanalyst, adopting the psychoanalytic concepts and the psychoanalytic technique? There is no doubt that in psychoanalysis, as in every other doctrine or school of thought, there is some truth and some error. The only question is as to the essential soundness of its basic structure and of the foundation upon which it is built. If we believe that it is merely the details which are wrong, then the thing to do is to take up our abode in this "house that Freud built," making only such changes and additions to it from time to time as we find necessary or desirable. If, on the other hand, we decide that the foundation and framework of psychoanalysis are unsound, then the right course to pursue is to abandon it altogether and build an entirely new edifice upon an entirely different foundation. Our aim in this little volume is to inquire into the nature of the basic structure of psychoanalysis with a view to determining which of these two courses of action we should pursue"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

The theory of psychoanalysis

The technique of psychoanalysis

How the psychoanalyst proves his case

The practical value of psychoanalysis

The popular success of psychoanalysis

The alternative to psychoanalysis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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