Author: Akṣapāda
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781797884684
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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The book reflects the thoughts and ideas of the father of psychology, Sigmund Freud who was born in 1856. He was a psychologist, medical doctor, physiologist and moreover an influential thinker of the 20th century. He is initially known for his famous theory that the mind is a complex energy system and its structural investigation is the popular element in psychology. Later in 1900, Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams, which is regarded as the greatest works in psychology till date. Sigmund's most famous concepts on id, ego, and super-ego are still the basis for frequent studies in psychology. It provided a root path to major concepts relevant today. Freud's most famous theory of Oedipus complex also paved the way to examinations and controversies which are relevant even today. The book gives a good read of inspiration for those who explore the game of mind.
Author: Rebecca Hall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429910177
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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This book introduces the reader and student to the unconscious mind, the hidden treasures and dangers it holds. It contains some very basic, useful, and empirically supported facts from depth psychology, which allows everyone access to deeply hidden aspects of themselves.
Author: Frank Tallis
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250288967
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 335
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A chronicle of Vienna's Golden Age and the influence of Sigmund Freud on the modern world by a clinical psychologist whose mystery novels form the basis of PBS's Vienna Blood series. Some cities are like stars. When the conditions are right, they ignite, and burn with such fierce intensity that they outshine every other city on the planet. Vienna was one such city and, at the beginning of the twentieth century, was the birthplace of the modern mind and the way we live today. Long coffee menus and celebrity interviews are Viennese inventions. ‘Modern’ buildings were appearing in Vienna long before they started appearing in New York and the idea of practical modern home design originated in the work of Viennese architect Adolf Loos. The place, however, where one finds the most indelible and profound impression of Viennese influence is inside your head. How we think about ourselves has been largely determined by Vienna’s most celebrated resident, Sigmund Freud. In Mortal Secrets, Frank Tallis brilliantly illuminates Sigmund Freud and his times, taking readers into the mind of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, chronicling the evolution of psychoanalysis and opening up Freud’s life to embrace the Vienna he lived in and the lives of the people he mingled with from Gustav Klimt to Arnold Schönberg, Egon Schiele to Gustav Mahler. Mortal Secrets is a thrilling book about a heady time in one of the world’s most beautiful cities and its long shadow that extends through the twentieth century up until the present day.
Author: Anne Harrington
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324001976
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Mind Fixers tells the history of psychiatry’s quest to understand the biological basis of mental illness and asks where we need to go from here. In Mind Fixers, Anne Harrington, author of The Cure Within, explores psychiatry’s repeatedly frustrated struggle to understand mental disorder in biomedical terms. She shows how the stalling of early twentieth century efforts in this direction allowed Freudians and social scientists to insist, with some justification, that they had better ways of analyzing and fixing minds. But when the Freudians overreached, they drove psychiatry into a state of crisis that a new “biological revolution” was meant to alleviate. Harrington shows how little that biological revolution had to do with breakthroughs in science, and why the field has fallen into a state of crisis in our own time. Mind Fixers makes clear that psychiatry’s waxing and waning biological enthusiasms have been shaped not just by developments in the clinic and lab, but also by a surprising range of social factors, including immigration, warfare, grassroots activism, and assumptions about race and gender. Government programs designed to empty the state mental hospitals, acrid rivalries between different factions in the field, industry profit mongering, consumerism, and an uncritical media have all contributed to the story as well. In focusing particularly on the search for the biological roots of schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder, Harrington underscores the high human stakes for the millions of people who have sought medical answers for their mental suffering. This is not just a story about doctors and scientists, but about countless ordinary people and their loved ones. A clear-eyed, evenhanded, and yet passionate tour de force, Mind Fixers recounts the past and present struggle to make mental illness a biological problem in order to lay the groundwork for creating a better future, both for those who suffer and for those whose job it is to care for them.
Author: David Cohen
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811814317
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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What's the significance of a Freudian slip? Is there a difference between men's and women's brain chemestry? Does hypnosis really work? The Secret Language of the Mind explores in fascinating detail the intriguing and ongoing mysteries about why and who we are. Over 200 full-color and b&w illustrations.
Author: Lesley Chamberlain
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609800117
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Widely acclaimed for giving "an understanding of the connection between Nietzsche’s personal experience and his most famous ideas" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times) in her biography of Nietzsche, Nietzsche in Turin, Chamberlain now renders a similar service to readers of Freud. In this book, part biography, part literary criticism, she takes the reader into the mind of Freud, toward a better understanding of the thinker, his work, and art itself. The very idea of the subconcious as a constant, active presence in our daily lives was Freud’s greatest contribution and has allowed generations of people to experience their lives more deeply. His rigorous exploration of the dynamism and structures of the subconscious, Chamberlain argues, was in itself an important work of art. Using Freud’s own writing on art and the aesthetic theories of thinkers ranging from Nietzsche to Lionel Trilling, Chamberlain examines Freud’s art and shows how his imaginative creations have revolutionized not only mental health, but our thinking about art in general, by opening up the individual subconscious as a subject. In elegant, accessible prose she describes how "Freud split the aesthetic atom, releasing a vast energy for individual creativity."
Author: Walter Kaufmann
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351519069
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Walter Kaufmann completed this, the third and final volume of his landmark trilogy, shortly before his death in 1980. The trilogy is the crowning achievement of a lifetime of study, writing, and teaching. This final volume contains Kaufmann's tribute to Sigmund Freud, the man he thought had done as much as anyone to discover and illuminate the human mind. Kaufmann's own analytical brilliance seems a fitting reflection of Freud's, and his acute commentary affords fitting company to Freud's own thought. Kaufmann traces the intellectual tradition that culminated in Freud's blending of analytic scientific thinking with humanistic insight to create "a poetic science of the mind." He argues that despite Freud's great achievement and celebrity, his work and person have often been misunderstood and unfairly maligned, the victim of poor translations and hostile critics. Kaufmann dispels some of the myths that have surrounded Freud and damaged his reputation. He takes pains to show how undogmatic, how open to discussion, and how modest Freud actually was. Kaufmann endeavors to defend Freud against the attacks of his two most prominent apostate disciples, Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav Jung. Adler is revealed as having been jealous, hostile, and an ingrate, a muddled thinker and unskilled writer, and remarkably lacking in self-understanding. Jung emerges in Kaufmann's depiction as an unattractive, petty, and envious human being, an anti-Semite, an obscure and obscurantist thinker, and, like Adler, lacking insight into himself. Freud, on the contrary, is argued to have displayed great nobility and great insight into himself and his wayward disciples in the course of their famous fallings-out.
Author: Gregory Zilboorg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychoanalysis
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258007935
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 853
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Collected Works of Sigmund Freud Part I: Totem and Taboo/ Psycho-Analysis and the War Neuroses/ The Psychopathology of Everyday Life/ Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Sigmund Freud: Delve into the foundational works of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis. This collection includes "Totem and Taboo," "Psycho-Analysis and the War Neuroses," "
