1st Edition

Phobia A Reassessment

By Sian Morgan Copyright 2003
248 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

This volume in the seminal Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis Series is a daring reassessment of the psychoanalytic theory of phobia from numerous schools of thought. This book should illuminate why psychoanalysis has been under-used in the treatment of phobia - is it simply that other treatments are more successful or is it a symptom of today's "quick fix" culture? By considering the origins and... Read more
Foreword -- Introduction -- Phobia: a biological perspective -- High anxiety: a Jungian analysis of phobia -- Phobic anxiety: learning from clinical experience and psychoanalytic observations of children -- Phobia and object relations theory -- Phobia as a quest for fantasy -- Phobias and primitive psychotic anxieties -- Fathers and phobias: a possibly psychoanalytic point of view -- The history of a phobia: an overview of the development of ideas on the origins and meaning of agoraphobia

Biography

Morgan, Sian