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The Psychoanalytic Movement explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way in which the middle classes of the industrialized West speak about their emotions.

  • Explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way for the industrialized West to speak about emotion.
  • Argues that although psychoanalysis offers an incisive picture of human nature, it provides untestable operational definitions and makes unsubstantiated claims concerning its therapeutic efficacy.
  • Includes new foreword by Jose Brunner that expands on the central argument of the book and argues that Gellner and Freud might be seen as kindred spirits.

The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 09/12/2002
    ISBN13: 9780631234135, 978-0631234135
    ISBN10: 0631234136

    Number of Pages: 254

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    The Psychoanalytic Movement explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way in which the middle classes of the industrialized West speak about their emotions.

    • Explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way for the industrialized West to speak about emotion.
    • Argues that although psychoanalysis offers an incisive picture of human nature, it provides untestable operational definitions and makes unsubstantiated claims concerning its therapeutic efficacy.
    • Includes new foreword by Jose Brunner that expands on the central argument of the book and argues that Gellner and Freud might be seen as kindred spirits.

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