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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809120303321

Autore

Chessick Richard D. <1931->

Titolo

The future of psychoanalysis [[electronic resource] /] / Richard D. Chessick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2007

ISBN

0-7914-8105-0

1-4294-7121-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Disciplina

616.89/17

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-255) and index.

Nota di contenuto

What is psychoanalysis? -- Psychoanalysis as science and art -- The psychoanalyst as translator -- The continental contribution to modern psychoanalysis -- The secret life of the psychoanalyst -- What can modern psychoanalysts learn from a medieval psychoanalysis? -- Freud's great discovery -- The effect on countertransference of the collapse of civilization -- The contemporary failure of nerve and the crisis in psychoanalysis -- Psychoanalysis at the end of the third millennium: a fantasy -- What constitutes progress in psychoanalysis? -- Understanding the human mind in the contemporary world.

Sommario/riassunto

Addresses the problem of multiple theories of psychoanalysis, arguing for a return to Freud.