1st Edition

The Psychology of Emotion Morbid and Normal

By MacCurdy, John T Copyright 1925
    608 Pages
    by Routledge

    604 Pages
    by Routledge

    This is Volume XII of nineteen in a collection of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology. Originally published in 1925, this research stemmed from many discussions about the applicability of psychoanalytic principles to manic-depressive insanity, whether the symptoms could be traced to unconscious mental processes in the same way as Jung had demonstrated it to be possible in dementia praecox and ended up with the general objective moving from that of psychopathological to one of psychological conclusions .

    Part 1 Psychiatrical Introduction; Chapter 1 The Manic-Depressive Group; Chapter 2 Somatic and Psychological Pathology; Chapter 3 The Mixed Conditions; Chapter 4 The Theory of Psychogenesis; Chapter 5 Problems of Diagnosis; Part 2 Psychological Introduction; Chapter 6 Definitions; Chapter 7 The James-Lange Hypothesis; Chapter 8 Mcdougall’s Theories; Chapter 9 The Views of Freud and Janet; Chapter 10 The Contributions of Morton Prince; Chapter 11 A Tentative Theory of Emotion; Chapter 12 The Oedipus Complex and Infantile Sexuality; Part 3 The Stupor Reaction; Chapter 13 Description of the Stupor Reaction; Chapter 14 The Case of Charlotte W; Chapter 15 Psychology of the Stupor Reaction; Part 4 The Involution Melancholias; Chapter 16 Symptoms and Types of Involution Melancholia; Chapter 17 Typical Cases; Chapter 18 The Psychology of Involution Melancholia; Part 5 Manic States; Chapter 19 Introductory: Sublimations; Chapter 20 Precipitating Mental Causes: Cases; Chapter 21 Some Typical Manic Cases; Chapter 22 Emotions in Manic States other than Elation; Chapter 23 The Principle of Distraction of Thought; Chapter 24 Stages in Distraction of Thought: Cases; Chapter 25 Distraction of Thought and Anomalies of Manic States; Chapter 26 Elation without Content; Chapter 27 Explanation of Mood Variations in Manic States; Chapter 28 Normal Happiness and Hypomania; Chapter 29 The Prognosis of Manic States; Part 6 Anxiety States; Chapter 30 Theories of Anxiety; Chapter 31 Anxiety Cases; Chapter 32 Psychology of the Anxiety Reaction; Part 7 Depression; Chapter 33 Analysis of the Symptoms of Depression; Chapter 34 Cases of Depression with Onset of Infantile Ideas; Chapter 35 The Mental Make-Up of Depressive Patients; Chapter 36 Precipitating Mental Causes of Depression; Chapter 37 Reactive Depressions; Chapter 38 Depression and Impotence; Part 8 Perplexity States; Chapter 39 Description of Perplexity States; Chapter 40 Psychological Explanation of the Perplexity Reaction; Chapter 41 Cases Illustrative of Perplexity; Chapter 42 Relationship of Perplexity to other Psychoses; Chapter 43 “Déjà Vu”; Chapter 44 The Affect in Perplexity; Part 9 Psychiatric Conclusions; Chapter 45 Treatment; Chapter 46 The Nature of Manic-Depressive Insanity; Part 10 Data for a Theory of Emotions; Chapter 47 Material Derived from the Psychogenic Psychoses; Chapter 48 1The main argument of this chapter was presented to the American Psychoanalytic Association in 1916 under the title The Embryology of Dreams. As “The Metamorphosis of Dreams” it was published in Problems of Personality. Essays in honour of Morton Prince. (Kegan Paul & Co.).The present chapter is largely a transcript of this paper; Chapter 49 1A considerable part of the argument in this chapter is reproduced—sometimes in actual transcription—from my book Problems in Dynamic Psychology. When writing this I assumed that some of my views were unique. But, when the book was in press, I was delighted to find an article, just published, that echoed many of my claims. This was a paper by Kiewiet de Jonge on “Dreams as a Manifestation of Lowered Consciousness” (Der Traum als Erscheinung erniedrigten Bewusstseins, Juans. f. Psychologie u. Neurologie, Bd. XXVII, Heft 3.) It gives me pleasure to record my tardy appreciation of this work. With nearly everything that he says I agree. He is, however, an avowed opponent of psycho-analysis. Consequently he has failed—so it seems to me—to grasp the significance of dream thoughts although recognizing their mechanism. For instance, he claims that the train of thought in a dream is without a goal, so that actual events cannot he retold logically. This is, in general, true, but he goes on to say that it is like manic flight without conclusion nor sense. Throughout he fails to grasp the fundamental significance of unconscious thinking; Part 11 Psychological Conclusions; Chapter 50 The Psychology of Emotions; Chapter 51 Future Problems;

    Biography

    John T. MacCurdy