Psychoanalytic theories of affect / Ruth Stein ; foreword by Joseph Sandler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stein, Ruth E. K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Affect (Psychology).

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"An attempt to collate and clarify psychoanalytic theories on affect, and how they relate to the clinical process. Stein outlines and analyses the most important theories on affect, and examines empirical work presented over the past 100 years, exposing the rigidity of some existing notions."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

COVER; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Freud's Writings on Affect; 2. Theories of Affect in the Last Years of Freud and after His Death: Jones, Brierley , Glover; 3. Ego Psychology and the Affects; 4. Affects and Positions: Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion; 5. Affects as Feeling States and as Value Functions: Joseph Sandler; 6. An ""Ego Psychological Object Relations"" Model of Affect: Otto Kernberg; 7. The French School: Andre Green- A Discourse on Affects; 8. Recent Trends in Affect Theories in Psychology

9. The Relevance of Recent Trends in Theories of Emotion in Psychology and Infant Studies to Psychoanalytic Affect Theory 10. Conclusions and New Directions; Notes; References; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-429-91810-0

0-429-47910-7

1-283-06850-8

9786613068507

1-84940-277-9

9780429479106

OCLC:

723945305