Psychoanalysis and Social Work
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to social work. The first part of the book consists of basic psychoanalytical theory with an emphasis on ego psychology. The rest of the book consists of ten chapters written by different psychoanalysts demonstrating how psychoanalytical knowledge can be applied usefully in various fields of social work. The theoretical part of the book gives a concise account of psychoanalytical theory and it is inevitable that some criticism will arise as the result of the necessity to compress a vast amount of complex psychoanalytical theory into so short a space, e.g. there is considerable discussion of oral attitudes and of the oral character but the anal character is hardly mentioned. However, these chapters provide very stimulating ideas, e.g. Dr. Kubie's very interesting section on the symbolic process, and the part it plays in neurosis :
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