Psychoanalysis - 9781138531024

Name: Psychoanalysis - 9781138531024
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

PsychoanalysisEvolution and Development\nAuthor(s): Clara Thompson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138531024, 978-1138531024\nSynopsis\nClara Thompson was a leading representative of the cultural interpersonal school of psychoanalysis, sometimes known as the \""neo-Freudians,\"" which included Karen Horney, Erich Fromm, and Harry Stack Sullivan. \""Classical analysts\"" once viewed neo-Freudians with the greatest suspicion and mistrust, yet today they can be seen for the innovative group of thinkers they were. Thompson's Psychoanalysis: Evolution and Development, first published in 1950, remains an enormously fair-minded discussion of the history of psychoanalytic theory and therapy.\n\nPsychoanalysis has always been a theory of personality as well as a technique of therapy. Since Freud was born in 1856, and was an outstanding representative of the culture of old Vienna, Thompson thought there was plenty of room for.