On Freud s formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning

About the author

Lawrence J. Brown is a graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute (BPSI) in both Child and Adult psychoanalysis. He is on the faculty of BPSI as well as the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis and also a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He has been on the North American Editorial Board of the 'International Journal of Psychoanalysis' and is currently on the Editorial Board of 'Psychoanalytic Inquiry'. He was also Co-chair of the Bion in Boston 2009 international conference.Gabriela Legorreta is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Montreal Psychoanalytic Society (French section of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society). She is the Chair of the Psychoanalytic Bridges with Latin America study group, a board member of the 'Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis', and is in charge of the Spanish section of the Advisory Committee on Foreign Language Book reviews of the 'Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association'. She is also a member of the Publications Committee of the IPA.

Summary

Each author examines Freud's paper through a personal lens that is coloured by the psychoanalytic culture from which he or she comes. In each instance, the writers' chapters demonstrate the heuristic value of Two Principles for twenty-first century psychoanalytic theory and technique.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence J. Legorreta Brown, Lawrence J. Brown, Gabriela Brown Legorreta
• Assisted by: Lawrence J. Brown (Editor), Gabriela Legorreta (Editor), Legorreta Gabriela (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367103484
• ISBN: 978-0-367-10348-4
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: The International Psychoanalytical Association Contemporary Freud Turning Points and Critical Issues Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)