Mental zoo : animals in the human mind and its pathology / edited by Salman Akhtar and Vamik D. Volkan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Akhtar, Salman, 1946 July 31-

Volkan, Vamik D., 1932-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness--Animal models.

Mental illness.

Animals--Miscellanea.

Animals.

Imagery (Psychology).

Psychoanalytic Theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Salman Akhtar and Vamik Volkan's dynamic book, Mental Zoo, takes the reader on a panoramic tour illuminating the rich world of animals in human experience. Here Freud's rats, wolves, and horses join our own cats and dogs to meet snakes, spiders, birds, and cockroaches. With an engaging blend of whimsy and erudition, the contributors describe the feelings, fantasies, dreams, nightmares, and delusions that animals evoke in us all. Detailed clinical examples capture the richness of the intrapsychic and interpersonal places that animals inhabit in our psyches. The book encompasses the role of ani

Contents:

COVER; TABLE OF CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Part I Conceptual Backdrop; CHAPTER 1 Animals in Psychiatric Symptomatology; Part II Freud's Menagerie; CHAPTER 2 Rat People; CHAPTER 3 Horses and Horsewomen; CHAPTER 4 The Wolf in the Consulting Room; Part III Other Animals; CHAPTER 5 Man's Best Friend; CHAPTER 6 A Journey with Homo Aves Through the Human Aviary; CHAPTER 7 Snakes and Us; CHAPTER 8 Spider Phobias and Spider Fantasies; CHAPTER 9 The Cat People Revisited; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX

Notes:

Originally published : Madison, Conn. : International Universities Press, ©2005.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 20, 2014).

ISBN:

0-429-91623-X

0-429-90200-X

0-429-47723-6

1-78241-238-7

9780429477232

OCLC:

871635375