1st Edition

The Clinical Application of the Theory of Psychoanalysis

By Ahmed Fayek Copyright 2011
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

Psychoanalysis - the one that we are familiar with - started in the clinical field. Freud and Breuer made some strides in the treatment of hysteria using hypnosis. They put together a theory of psychopathology based on two basic notions: conflicts between acceptable and unacceptable impulses (ideas, desires, fantasies, etc.), and the repression of the unacceptable impulses causing the formation of... Read more
PART I: PROBLEMATIQUES, CHAPTER ONE Problems of clinical practice: the myth of clinical theory, CHAPTER TWO Fundamentals of clinical practice: Freud’s clinical propositions, CHAPTER THREE The import of psychodiagnosis in clinical practice: identifying the core problems, CHAPTER FOUR Fixation and repetition-compulsion: psychical predictability and unpredictability, PART II: CLINICAL CHAPTER FIVE Analysis of a compulsive character: the import of diagnosis, CHAPTER SIX Analysis of a case of psychogenic amnesia: a glimpse of the traditional cases, CHAPTER SEVEN Analysis of an identity problem: the search for the core problem, CHAPTER EIGHT Analysis of a case of narcissistic disorder: the absent patient, PART III: THEORY CHAPTER NINE A theory to be rediscovered: future psychoanalysis

Biography

Ahmed Fayek