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List of contents
1. Nosology and the Therapeutic Goals of Psychoanalysis 2. Masochism and the Repetition Compulsion 3. Epigenesis, Regressive Disorganization, and Reversibility 4. Developmental Arrest and the Borders of Integrated Functioning 5. Disruption of the Self-Organization as an Inability to Repeat 6. Regression, the Psychosomatic Barrier, and the Capacity to Symbolize 7. Repetitive Enactment as Symbolization and Self-Healing 8. Transitional Relationships, Adaptive Skills, and Autonomy in Behavior Regulation 9. Character, Dyadic Enactments, and the Need for Symbiosis 10. Transference Neurosis, Archaic Transference, and the Compulsion to Repeat 11. Intractable Character Pathology as the Convergence of Repetition and Apraxia 12. Apraxia and the Inability to Learn: A Reprise of Previous Work 13. Disorders of Communication: Language, Affects, and Vegetative Signs 14. Disorders of Thought: Magic and Obsessions 15. The Conundrum of Sexuality Epilogue: The Art of Psychoanalysis as a Technology of Instruction
About the author
John E. Gedo, M.D., is Training and Supervising Analyst, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Illinois School of Medicine. He is the author of numerous books, including Conceptual Issues in Psychoanalysis and Portraits of the Artist, both Analytic Press publications.
Summary
In this original attempt to chart a theory of disordered mental functions based exclusively on psychoanalytic principles and data, Gedo posits two broad categories of functional disorder: "apraxias," which represent any failure to learn adaptively essent
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"[T]he vicissitudes of [Gedo's concepts of apraxia and obligatory repetition] are wide-ranging, complex, richly textured expositions that inform and illuminate at every turn."
- Psychoanalytic Books
