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Originally published in 1955, in this book the author expounds his main thesis - namely that our conscious pre-occupations, thoughts and behaviour are merely the products or "symptoms" of a process that is going on within us (basically a physiological process) of which we are totally unconscious.
List of contents
Parts I and II: Theory Introduction
Part 1: The Interview 1. Plan of the Book 2. Opening Phase of the Interview 3. What Goes On 4. The Purpose of the Interview, Avowed and Unavowed 5. The Interviewer and the Interviewed
Part 2: The Interviewer 6. The Hospital Interview 7. The Doctor's Interview 8. The Psychiatric Interview 9. The Therapeutic Interview 10. A Simple Example of a Therapeutic Interview 11. The Analytical Interview 12. The Analytical Interview, continued 13. Analysis - Resistance and Technique
Parts III to V: Practice Part 3: The Interviewed 14. A Case of Blushing 15. Acting Out Our Conflicts 16. The Sequel 17. Afraid to Marry 18. The Strong Man 19. Hate Before Love 20. Involuntary Relief of Tension 21. The History and Nature of her Principal Symptom
Part 4: 'Guys and Dolls' 22. Sexually Inhibited Men 23. Immature Men 24. Perverted Men 25. Women - Theoretical Introduction 26. Inhibited Women 27. The Socialite - Personal Relationship in lieu of Sexual Relationship 28. Frigidity and Orgastic Frigidity 29. An 'Over-Sexed' Woman
Part 5: The Unconscious Basis 30. The Psychology of the Interview 31. The Psychology of Love and Hate - Unconscious Factors in Personal Relationship 32. Transference - as the Essence of the Personal Relationship 33. We Are Unwittingly Living Our Dreams 34. Postscript. Glossary. Index.
About the author
Charles Berg (1892-1957)
Summary
Originally published in 1955, in this book the author expounds his main thesis – namely that our conscious pre-occupations, thoughts and behaviour are merely the products or "symptoms" of a process that is going on within us (basically a physiological process) of which we are totally unconscious.
