In Freud's Shadow - Adler in Context

In the first intellectual biography of Alfred Adler, Stepansky amasses a wealth of little-known, untranslated source materials in critically elucidating Adler's ideas as socialist, physician, psychiatrist, educator, and social critic. His interpretive re

List of contents

Introduction 1. From Socialism to Pedagogy: Prelude to Adlerian Theory 2. From Medicine to Psychiatry: The Foundations of Adlerian Theory, Part I 3. From Medicine to Psychiatry: The Foundations of Adlerian Theory, Part II 4. Adler in Freud's Circle: I. The Vicissitudes of Discipleship 5. Adler in Freud's Circle: II. The Anatomy of Dissension 6. Adler in Freud's Circle: III. The Nervous Character and Its Critic 7. Adler in Freud's Circle: IV. The Psychology of Repudiation 8. The Psychologist as Pedagogue: Adler and the Education of the Child 9. The Psychologist as Prophet: Adler and Gemeinschaftsgefuehl Appendix: The Hidden Adler in Freud

About the author

Paul E. Stepansky received his doctorate in European intellectual history from Yale University, where he was named the first Kanzer Foundation Fellow for Psychoanalytic Studies in the Humanities. One of the foremost psychoanalytic editors in the country, he served as the Managing Director of Analytic Press until 2006. He is the author of numerous books on Sigmund Freud as well as The Memoirs of Margaret S. Mahler.

Product details

• Authors: Paul E Stepansky, Paul E. Stepansky, Stepansky Paul E.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.1983
• EAN: 9780881630077
• ISBN: 978-0-88163-007-7
• No. of pages: 342
• Weight: 790 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / History, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis