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Life, Sex and Death: Selected Writings of William Gillespie book cover

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Life, Sex and Death Selected Writings of William Gillespie

Edited By Michael Sinason Copyright 1995
224 Pages
by Routledge
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A distinguished and revered elder of the British Psycho-Analytical Society, Dr William Gillespie is one of the few British psychoanalysts who began training in the Vienna of the early 1930s. Later he became well known in England for his pioneering studies of sexual perversion, and for his views on female sexuality, regression in old people facing death, and on instinct theory. William Gillespie... Read more
Part 1 PART ONE Introduction to the papers; Chapter 1 Biographical introduction; Chapter 2 William H.Gillespie's psychoanalysis of sexual perversions: an appreciation and integration; Part 2.1 PART TWO Papers A: The psychoanalytic theory of sexual development and sexual deviation; Chapter 3 A contribution to the study of fetishism; Chapter 4 Notes on the analysis of sexual perversions; Chapter 5 The general theory of sexual perversion; Chapter 6 The structure and aetiology of sexual perversion; Chapter 7 The psychoanalytic theory of sexual deviation with special reference to fetishism; Chapter 8 Contribution to symposium on homosexuality; Chapter 9 Concepts of vaginal orgasm; Chapter 10 Woman and her discontents: a reassessment of Freud's views on female sexuality; Part 2.2 PART TWO Papers B: The forces of life and death; Chapter 11 Extrasensory elements in dream interpretation; Chapter 12 Aggression and instinct theory; Chapter 13 Some regressive phenomena in old age; Chapter 14 The end of life; Part 3 PART THREE Other writings and references; Chapter 15 Full chronological list of writings, published and unpublished, by William H.Gillespie;

Biography

Dr Michael D.A.Sinason trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital. His main clinical work has been the psychoanalytic approach to psychotic illness and he became a full member of the British Psycho-Analytical Society in 1993. Dr Charles W.Socarides is in private psychoanalytic practice in New York. He has written extensively in the area of sexual deviations and is the author of several books, including Homosexuality and The Preoedipal Origin andPsychoanalytic Therapy of Sexual Perversions.

Not only was Gillespie an innovator and discoverer, but a pioneer investigator whose work encompasses the entire history of accomplishments of psychoanalytic thought on perversions. - Charles Socarides, Vol 22. Understanding Mental Objects

There is little doubt that this study represents a major contribution to the field. - Joseph Sandler

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