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Psychoanalysis: A Critical Introduction is a clearly written and accessible introduction to the main schools of psychoanalysis and the practice of psychotherapy. Unusually, it is written by an academic sociologist specializing in social theory who is also a practising psychotherapist.

Table of Contents
Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Chapter 1: Introduction.

PART I THE FOUNDATIONS.

Chapter 2: The Unconscious.

Chapter 3: Freud: Psychic Structures, Internal Agencies and the Defences.

Chapter 4: The Development of the Psyche: Freud and Oedipus.

Chapter 5 Klein: Envy, Phantasy and the Development of the Infant.

PART II DIVERGENT PATHS.

Chapter 6 The Later Kleinians: Symbol Formation, Thinking and Organisations.

Chapter 7: Infancy and Object Relations.

Chapter 8; Psychoanalysis as a Science of Child Development.

Chapter 9: Lacan and the Return to Freud.

Chapter 10: Psychoanalysis, Gender and Feminism.

PART III THE NATURE OF THERAPY.

Chapter 11: Understanding Therapy 1: Introduction.

Chapter 12: Understanding Therapy 2: Transference and Countertransference.

Chapter 13: Conclusion.

Bibliography.

Index

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 04/06/2001
      ISBN13: 9780745619781, 978-0745619781
      ISBN10: 0745619789
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Psychoanalysis: A Critical Introduction is a clearly written and accessible introduction to the main schools of psychoanalysis and the practice of psychotherapy. Unusually, it is written by an academic sociologist specializing in social theory who is also a practising psychotherapist.

      Table of Contents
      Preface.

      Acknowledgments.

      Chapter 1: Introduction.

      PART I THE FOUNDATIONS.

      Chapter 2: The Unconscious.

      Chapter 3: Freud: Psychic Structures, Internal Agencies and the Defences.

      Chapter 4: The Development of the Psyche: Freud and Oedipus.

      Chapter 5 Klein: Envy, Phantasy and the Development of the Infant.

      PART II DIVERGENT PATHS.

      Chapter 6 The Later Kleinians: Symbol Formation, Thinking and Organisations.

      Chapter 7: Infancy and Object Relations.

      Chapter 8; Psychoanalysis as a Science of Child Development.

      Chapter 9: Lacan and the Return to Freud.

      Chapter 10: Psychoanalysis, Gender and Feminism.

      PART III THE NATURE OF THERAPY.

      Chapter 11: Understanding Therapy 1: Introduction.

      Chapter 12: Understanding Therapy 2: Transference and Countertransference.

      Chapter 13: Conclusion.

      Bibliography.

      Index

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