Personality Structure and Human Interaction: The Developing Synthesis of Psychodynamic Theory (Maresfield Library) - Hardcover

Guntrip, Harry Y.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367104830 ISBN 13: 9780367104832

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

How has a theory of man as a social being to be formulated if we are to do justice to his individuality, to the subtle ways in which his love and hate compete within his relations with others and to the anxieties and resistances he shows when he seeks to change himself? To answer this question is the task which the author sets himself. After assessing Freud's basic principles, the author proceeds to make a uniquely comprehensive review of subsequent theoretical contributions to psychoanalysis with special emphasis on the work of Fairbairn and Melanie Klein. From a background of philosophy, theology and social studies, the author went on to take a personal psychoanalysis and to become a full time psychotherapist, and it is from this combination of wide knowledge and intensive work with people beset by conflicts in their relations with themselves and others that he evolves his views.

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Harry Guntrip

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0367104830
• ISBN 13: 9780367104832
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 456