1st Edition
Anxiety and Personality The Concept of a Directing Object and its Applications
By Karl Koenig
Copyright 2000
96 Pages
by
Routledge
96 Pages
by
Routledge
96 Pages
by
Routledge
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The concept of a "directing object" is based on extensive clinical observations linked to a combination of ego psychology and object relations theory in the tradition of Otto Kernberg and Anne Marie and Joseph Sandler. People with a phobic disposition are those who were not, during childhood, permitted to learn by trial and error and thus gain confidence in their actions. They did not learn to... Read more
ABOUT THE AUTHOR viiPREFACE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE Psychoanalysis of phobia CHAPTER TWO Various types of phobia CHAPTER THREE Further applications APPENDIX REFERENCES INDEX
Biography
Karl Koenig
