Psychoanalysis as biological science : a comprehensive theory / John E. Gedo
- Author
- Gedo, John E.
- Published
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
- Physical Description
- xv, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Contents
- The enduring scientific contributions of Sigmund Freud -- Hermeneutics and biology in the psychoanalytic situation -- Alternatives to Freud's biological theory -- The psychoanalytic import of mental contents -- Personality development and psychopathology -- A hierarchy of motivations as self-organization -- Trauma and its vicissitudes: disruption of self-organization -- Breakdowns in information processing -- Affectivity -- Dreams and dreaming -- The biopsychology of early experience -- Disorders of thought -- Object relations -- Permutations of sexuality -- The regulation of behavior -- Learning and adaptation -- The psychoanalytic process -- Unsolved problems.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0801880513 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-183) and index.
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