The therapy of the neuroses and psychoses a socio-psychobiologic analysis and resynthesis.

"This book has been written to state not only some of the facts about man and the malady of his actions but to offer an interpretation of and a practical technique for meeting some of his problems. This book is an attempt at an orientation: an orientation which studies man as he is, in the soci...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kraines, Samuel Henry, 1906-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger, 1941-
Edition:[1st]- ed.
Series:PsychBooks Collection
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Classification of the psychiatric states
  • The fundamental psychology of the psychoneuroses
  • Psychoneurotic symptoms expressed primarily by psychologic factors
  • Psychoneurotic (tension) symptoms due to disturbances in the autonomic nervous system
  • Sex drives
  • The principles of psychotherapy
  • Techniques of analysis of personality difficulties
  • Stress as a determining factor
  • Retraining attitudes and reaction patterns
  • Characteristic general attitudes and their treatment
  • Adjuvant therapy. Suggestion, hypnosis, and drugs
  • Energy mobilization and expression
  • Prognosis and the curve of improvement
  • Illustrative psychoneurotic symptoms and their treatment
  • The psychoses
  • Other psychopathic states including psychopathic personality, drug addiction, alcoholism, epilepsy, and feeblemindedness
  • Psychoanalysis and related schools.