Instinct and the Unconscious - A Contribution to a Biological Theory of the Psycho-Neuroses

Klappentext First published in 1922, this book examines the uses of psycho-therapy in the treatment of the psycho-neuroses of war. Zusammenfassung First published in 1922 as the second edition of a 1920 original! this book attempts 'to put into a biological setting the system of psycho-therapy which came to be generally adopted in Great Britain in the treatment of the psycho-neuroses of war' in the wake of WWI. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The unconscious; 3. Suppression; 4. Suppression and inhibition; 5. The context of the unconscious; 6. The nature of instinct; 7. The danger-instincts; 8. Suppression and the all-or-none principle; 9. Instinct and suppression; 10. Dissociation; 11. The 'complex'; 12. Suggestion; 13. Hypnotism; 14. Sleep; 15. The psycho-neuroses; 16. Hysteria or substitution-neurosis; 17. Other modes of solution; 18. Regression; 19. Sublimation; Appendix I. Freud's psychology of the unconscious; Appendix II. A case of claustrophobia; Appendix III. The repression of war experience; Appendix IV. War-neurosis and military training; Appendix V. Freud's conception of the 'censorship'; Appendix VI. 'Wind-up'; Appendix VII. Psychology and the war; Appendix VIII. The instinct of acquisition; Index.

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• Authors: W. H. R. Rivers, Rivers W. H. R.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.04.2014
• EAN: 9781107674936
• ISBN: 978-1-107-67493-6
• No. of pages: 286
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Industrial & Organizational Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / Military / Veterans, Psychiatry, Clinical psychology, History of Medicine, Occupational and industrial psychology, Occupational & industrial psychology, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Military veterans, MEDICAL / Military Medicine