1st Edition

The Evolved Structure of Human Social Behaviour and Personality Psychoanalytic Insights

By Ralf-Peter Behrendt Copyright 2012
296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

This book, concerned with psychoanalytic conceptualisations, helps to lay the foundation for a biologically and evolutionarily sensible model of human social behaviour and personality, and also helps to bridge the gap between psychoanalysis and neuroscience.

Introduction -- Deterministic metapsychology -- Aggression -- Submission and harm avoidance -- Praise and acceptance -- Anxiety -- Object relations theory -- Social structure -- Mental disorder -- Conclusions

Biography

Behrendt, Ralf-Peter