Self-Analysis

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Psychology Press, 1999 - Medical - 309 pages
First Published in 1999. Psychoanalysis first developed as a method of therapy in the strict medical sense. Freud had discovered that certain circumscribed disorders that have no discernible organic basis-such as hysterical convulsions, phobias, depressions, drug addictions, functional stomach upsets --can be cured by uncovering the unconscious factors that underlie them. In the course of time disturbances of this kind were summarily called neurotic. Therefore humility as well as hope is required in any discussion of the possibility of psychoanalytic self-examination. It is the object of this book to raise this question seriously, with all due consideration for the difficulties involved.
 

Contents

Introduction
7
Feasibility and Desirability of SelfAnalysis
13
The Driving Forces in Neuroses
37
Stages of Psychoanalytic Understanding
73
The Patients Share in the Psychoanalytic
101
The Analysts Share in the Psychoanalytic
123
Occasional SelfAnalysis
151
Preliminaries
174
Systematic SelfAnalysis of a Morbid
190
Spirit and Rules of Systematic SelfAnalysis
247
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Karen Danielsen Horney was a German-born American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Educated at the universities of Freiburg, Gottingen, and Berlin, she practiced in Europe until 1932, when she moved to the United States. Initially, she taught at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, but with others broke away in 1941 to found the American Institute for Psychoanalysis. Horney took issue with several orthodox Freudian teachings, including the Oedipus complex, the death instinct, and the inferiority of women. She thought that classical psychoanalytic theory overemphasized the biological sources of neuroses. Her own theory of personality stressed the sociological determinants of behavior and viewed the individual as capable of fundamental growth and change.

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