Second thoughts : selected papers on psychoanalysis /

Second Thoughts: Selected Papers on Psycho-Analysis covers the developments in understanding the psycho-analytic theory. This book is composed of 10 chapters that review various case histories of psycho-analysis. After a brief explanation of the "imaginary twin” concept, this book goes...

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Main Authors: Bion, Wilfred R. (Wilfred Ruprecht), 1897-1979.
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.
Published: Heinemann,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: [1967]
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9781483198668
Summary: Second Thoughts: Selected Papers on Psycho-Analysis covers the developments in understanding the psycho-analytic theory. This book is composed of 10 chapters that review various case histories of psycho-analysis. After a brief explanation of the "imaginary twin” concept, this book goes on examining six cases of schizophrenic patients and their development of schizophrenic thought. The next chapter focuses on the differentiation of the psychotic from the non-psychotic personalities, which depends on a minute splitting of all that part of the personality that is concerned with awareness of inter.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (iii, 173 pages)
ISBN: 9781483223698
1483223698
Index Number: RC509
CLC: B84-065
Contents: Front Cover; Second Thoughts: Selected Papers on Psycho-Analysis; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2. THE IMAGINARY TWIN; CHAPTER 3. NOTES ON THE THEORY OF SCHIZOPHRENIA; A. INTRODUCTION; B. NATURE OF THE OBSERVATION ON WHICH INTERPRETATIONS ARE BASED; C. SCHIZOPHRENIC LANGUAGE; D. DEVELOPMENT OF CAPACITY FOR VERBAL THOUGHT; E. REALIZATION OF INSANITY; F. RESULTS; CHAPTER 4. DEVELOPMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIC THOUGHT; TRANSFERENCE; THE DIVERGENCE; DIVERGENCE OF PSYCHOTIC FROM NONPSYCHOTIC PERSONALITY; FATE OF THE EXPELLED FRAGMENTS; THE PARTICLES.
Consequences for the patientrepression; verbal thought; conclusion; chapter 5. differentiation of the psychotic from the non-psychotic personalities; conclusion; references; chapter 6. on hallucination; chapter 7. on arrogance; conclusion; chapter 8. attacks on linking; clinical examples; features common to the above illustrations; curiosity, arrogance and stupidity; denial of normal degrees of projective identification; consequences; superego; arrested development; conclusions; references; chapter 9. a theory of thinking; chapter 10. commentary; index.