Psychoanalytic Theories of Affect.
Title:
Psychoanalytic Theories of Affect.
Author:
Stein, Ruth.
ISBN:
9781849402774
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (238 pages)
Contents:
COVER -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Freud's Writings on Affect -- 2. Theories of Affect in the Last Years of Freud and after His Death: Jones, Brierley , Glover -- 3. Ego Psychology and the Affects -- 4. Affects and Positions: Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion -- 5. Affects as Feeling States and as Value Functions: Joseph Sandler -- 6. An "Ego Psychological Object Relations" Model of Affect: Otto Kernberg -- 7. The French School: Andre Green- A Discourse on Affects -- 8. Recent Trends in Affect Theories in Psychology -- 9. The Relevance of Recent Trends in Theories of Emotion in Psychology and Infant Studies to Psychoanalytic Affect Theory -- 10. Conclusions and New Directions -- Notes -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
An attempt to collate and clarify psychoanalytic theories on affect, and how they relate to the clinical process. Stein outlines and analyses the most important theories on affect, and examines empirical work presented over the past 100 years, exposing the rigidity of some existing notions.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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