Destructiveness, intersubjectivity, and trauma : the identity crisis of modern psychoanalysis / Werner Bohleber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bohleber, Werner.

Series:

Developments in psychoanalysis series.

Developments in psychoanalysis series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Post-traumatic stress disorder--Treatment.

Post-traumatic stress disorder.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'At last we have a book that provides a comprehensive overview and assessment of the intersubjective turn in psychoanalysis, showing its logical and clinical limitations and exploring its social and cultural determinants. Bohleber emphasizes the clinical importance of real traumatic experience along with the analysis of the transference as he reviews and broadens psychoanalytic theories of memory in relation to advances in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Psychoanalytic ideas on personality, adolescence and identity are re-thought and updated. Bohleber brilliantly presents a unique under

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; About The Author; Foreword by Peter Fonagy; Introduction; Part I: The Intersubjective Paradigm in Psychoanalysis and Late Modernity; Part II: Trauma, Memory, and Historical Context; Part III: Psychoanalysis of Ideological Destructivity; References

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

ISBN:

0-429-91262-5

0-429-47362-1

1-282-77990-7

9786612779909

1-84940-717-7

9780429473623

OCLC:

680622576