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Psychoanalysis as biological science : a comprehensive theory /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gedo, John E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Psychoanalysis.
Biological psychiatry.
Psychoanalytic Theory.
Biological Psychiatry.
Mental Disorders > psychology.
Mental Disorders > therapy.
Psychoanalytic Therapy > methods.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of 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.