The psychoanalytic movement [[electronic resource] ] : the cunning of unreason / / Ernest Gellner ; foreword by José Brunner

• Autore: Gellner Ernest
• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2003
• Edizione: 3rd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Disciplina: 150.19/5/09; 150.19509
• Soggetto topico: Psychoanalysis - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-206) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Back to nature -- The plague -- The Pirandello effect -- On the rack -- The cunning broker -- Reality regained -- The embourgoisement of the psyche -- Anatomy of a faith -- The bounds of science -- La thérapie imaginaire.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The psychoanalytic movement
• ISBN: 1-281-31045-X; 9786611310455; 0-470-70690-2; 0-470-77355-3; 0-470-77530-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996205988103316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno