The phrase "on historical principles" might well have been added to the titles of these volumes, for most sections are presented historically-much too historically in some cases. For instance, the section on mechanisms of evolution proceeds from Cuvier and Lamarck to Darwin, Wallace, and Huxley, and then concludes with the Scopes trial. If anyone wishes to know current concepts of evolutionary ...

Let me begin by summarising our model of the normal and abnormal experience of psychic reality. Both clinical and cognitive research evidence have shown that a normal awareness of the relationship between internal and external reality is not universal, but rather a developmental achievement (Fonagy & Target, 1996; Target & Fonagy, 1996). A child normally moves from an experience of psychic real...

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 ...

The concept of the collaborative relationship between patient and therapist has its roots in the psychodynamic literature. We trace the concept of collaboration in psychodynamic psychotherapy from classical psychoanalysis to contemporary psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapies. The active collaboration between the participants central to Bordin's pan-theoretical perspective on the alliance i...

Decades before writing An Outline of Psychoanalysis, Freud’s Project for a Scientific Psychology attempted to define the unconscious in neurological terms. Due to the technological restraints of the time, Freud was forced to abandon the Project and turn his focus to investigating the unconscious though dream analysis (Roffman & Gerber, 2008). In modern times, biological discoveries continue to ...

FAMILY INTERVIEWING, or family therapy as some prefer to call it, is by now a well-established, fashionable modality of psychotherapy and, for analysts engaged in such work, one of the many branches of applied psychoanalysis. As yet there is no adequate formulation of the meaning of "applied psychoanalysis, " for it is difficult indeed to define what psychoanalytic training adds to the practice...

Although psychoanalysis once dominated psychology, evidence now points to the waning influence of psychoanalytic theory in psychological science, psychiatric diagnosis, undergraduate instruction, and graduate training. In this article I describe 7 self-destructive behaviors exhibited by psychoanalysts that contributed to the precipitous decline of psychoanalytic theory in recent years. I then o...

This paper provides an overview of narcissistic personality disorders as they present clinically along a spectrum of severity ranging from the best functioning forms of pathological narcissism to the most threatening to the patient's psychosocial and physical survival. It proposes a general interpretive psychoanalytic stance with all these clinical syndromes that range from standard psychoanaly...

Psychoanalysis experienced a remarkable boom in 1960s Italy. One of the areas where psychoanalytic theory disseminated was the world of marketing and the sociology of consumption. Based on the case of the sociologist Francesco Alberoni, we can examine the impact of the theories of Melanie Klein for understanding the behavior of consumers. Similarly, Alberoni's work shows the concerns and uncert...