Metapsychology and the Foundations of Psychoanalysis - Attachment, Neuropsychoanalysis and Integration

Informationen zum Autor Dr Simon Boag is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Macquarie University. He has published extensively on the topics of psychoanalytic and psychological theory, personality and unconscious processes, and is the author of Freudian repression, the unconscious, and the dynamics of inhibition . He has also co-edited two volumes on the philosophy of psychoanalysis ( Philosophy, Science & Psychoanalysis , and Psychoanalysis & Philosophy of Mind ). Zusammenfassung Metapsychology and the Foundations of Psychoanalysis redresses faults in Freud’s original conception to develop a coherent theoretical basis for psychodynamic theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Metaphysics of Metapsychology 2. The biological foundations of personality: drives and affects 3. Repression and the metapsychology of defence 4. The metapsychology of the unconscious 5. The metapsychology of the self 6. The metapsychology of object relations Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Simon (Senior Lecturer Boag, Boag Simon
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.10.2016
• EAN: 9781138926752
• ISBN: 978-1-138-92675-2
• No. of pages: 164
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis