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Book SynopsisPsychoanalysis has been hailed as an indispensible starting point for understanding neuroses and psychoses. In this Very Short Introduction, Daniel Pick offers an account of the present-day practice of analysis, highlighting the benefits, whilst also shedding light on the problems, risks and failings in the long history of the movement.
Trade ReviewRecommended by the Institute of Psychoanalysis * Institute of Psychoanalysis Website *
an honest, direct, informative and useful book. * Christopher Bollas, British psychoanalyst and writer *
Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. How psychoanalysis began ; 3. A case of obsessional neurosis ; 4. Oedipus ; 5. Analytic space, time, and technique ; 6. Politics and upheavals ; 7. Innovations and controversies ; 8. Unconscious dramas ; 9. Concluding remarks ; Notes ; Further reading ; Index
