Incredible Shrinking Mind - What Happens When the Human Equation Gets Lost

List of contents

Preface , The psychic rat , If you could save the entire human race from perishing by strangling to death one innocent child … , Homo economicus , One on one with God , Sound bites from the cosmos

About the author

Gerald Alper is an internationally recognised psychotherapist, fellow of the American Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and author of fifteen books. In 1975 he received an M.S. in community counselling from Long Island University in the School of Education at C. W. Post Center and was valedictorian of his graduating class. He is a regular reviewer for the 'Journal of Contemporary Psychology' and is currently based in New York.

Summary

The Incredible Shrinking Mind not only offers a provocative and entertaining critique, but also a profound and practical solution: the psychodynamic approach, which takes seriously the question of meaning and not solely observable behaviour, which combines the quantitative and the experimental with the human and multidimensional.

Product details

• Authors: Gerald Alper, Alper Gerald
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367101879
• ISBN: 978-0-367-10187-9
• No. of pages: 140
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)