Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition: Philosophies of Life and Their Impact on Practice - Softcover

Bandes, Susan J.; Ness, Cindy

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ISBN 10: 0814756085 ISBN 13: 9780814756089

Verlag: New York University Press, 2001

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"Psychologist Ness offers compelling evidence for the cultural and structural reasons why inner-city girls fight."-Choice Magazine, Choice Magazine "This is a scholarly book in which a case is made for the heretofore undocumented reasons why girls maintain a fighting stance both in school and in the streets . . . The ten pages of references attest to the academically rigorous research that went into this ground-breaking book." -Peggy Flemming, "VOYA Library Magazine"

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What is psychoanalysis? Whereas there was once a time when proponents of "mainstream psychoanalysis" could point to the preeminence of Freud's drive theory and the version of the human condition associated with it-man as seeking pleasure in an erotically tinged universe-contemporary psychoanalysis is a fractured and contentious discipline in which competing theories share little more than the basic concepts of unconscious mental processes, repression, and transference. Taking the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions engendered by psychoanalysis over the past several decades as an encouraging point of departure rather than as evidence of the dissolution of the "psychoanalytic tradition," Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition makes explicit how, within each major theory, a particular story about the nature of the world and what it means to be human decisively shapes how the clinician conceptualizes individual psychopathology and approaches treatment. A chorus of voices that both challenges and reaffirms the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Versions of the Human Condition asks urgent questions-about the politics of psychoanalytic knowledge, and about how the profession is situated and operates in our contemporary culture. Whether Freudian, Jungian, Kleinian, Kohutian, Lacanian, or hybrid, the clinician will find this book a useful guide to understanding how each theory's "philosophy of life" infuses clinical work.

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• Verlag: New York University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0814756085
• ISBN 13: 9780814756089
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 478
• Herausgeber: Marcus Paul