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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814979103321

Autore

Bacciagaluppi Marco

Titolo

Paradigms in Psychoanalysis : An Integration / / by Marco Bacciagaluppi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2018]

©2012

ISBN

0-429-91714-7

0-429-90291-3

0-429-47814-3

1-280-12579-9

9786613529657

1-84940-975-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

131.34

150.195

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Paradigms (Social sciences)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; FOREWORD; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Genetics; CHAPTER TWO Neurobiology; CHAPTER THREE Attachment theory; CHAPTER FOUR Infant research; CHAPTER FIVE Trauma; CHAPTER SIX The relational model; CHAPTER SEVEN The family system; CHAPTER EIGHT The socio-cultural level; CHAPTER NINE Prehistory; Conclusion; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book aims at making explicit the scientific theories, termed paradigms, that the author has found useful in psychoanalysis. It lists nine paradigms: genetics, neurobiology, attachment theory, infant research, trauma, their relational model, the family system, the socio-cultural level, and prehistory. These nine paradigms are presented in as many chapters. Special attention is devoted to attachment theory, which the author considers to be the most powerful conceptual tool at the disposal of the psychoanalyst. He also covers trauma, the relational



model - with special reference to Ferenczi, Bowlby and Fromm. He explores the effect of cultural evolution, with the advent of agriculture, on family and character structures and the resulting discontinuity with the individual, or group's inborn needs, giving rise to an unnatural environment, and thus to psychopathology and pathology at a social level, such as war. The consequence of these combined factors gives rise to the need for psychotherapy, this is explored, together with the role of the therapist and the therapy of psychoses,