Psychoanalysis and motivational systems : a new look / Joseph D. Lichtenberg, Frank M. Lachmann, James L. Fosshage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lichtenberg, Joseph D., author.

Contributor:

Fosshage, James L.

Lachmann, Frank M.

Series:

Psychoanalytic inquiry book series ; v. 33.

Psychoanalytic inquiry ; v. 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motivation (Psychology).

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Introduced in Psychoanalysis and Motivation (1989) and further developed in Self and Motivational Systems (1992), The Clinical Exchange (1996), and A Spirit of Inquiry (2002), motivational systems theory aims to identify the components and organization of mental states and the process by which affects, intentions, and goals unfold. Motivation is described as a complex intersubjective process that is cocreated in the developing individual embedded in a matrix of relationships with others. Opening by placing motivational systems theory within a conte

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction; Chapter 1 Dynamic systems theory and five areas of inquiry; Chapter 2 Revisions and elaborations of motivational systems theory; Chapter 3 Beyond and beneath the motivational systems: A clinical story; Chapter 4 The experience of continuity and self-sameness despite multiple motivational states: An explanation by analogy: Fractal theory; Chapter 5 Inferences in clinical process; Chapter 6 Love: A motivational systems perspective; Chapter 7 Applying the theory to clinical exploration; Epilogue; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-92228-8

1-136-92229-6

1-283-03727-0

0-203-84474-2

9786613037275

9780203844748

OCLC:

705929197