Psychoanalytic Thinking - A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice (Paperback)

A video of Don Carveth discussing the book and its subject matter can be accessed using the following web URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW7tGq0uEtU Since the classical Freudian and ego psychology paradigms lost their position of dominance in the late 1950s, psychoanalysis became a multi-paradigm science with those working in the different frameworks increasingly engaging only with those in the same or related intellectual "silos." Beginning with Freud's theory of human nature and civilization, Psychoanalytic Thinking: A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice proceeds to review and critically evaluate a series of major post-Freudian contributions to psychoanalytic thought. In response to the defects, blind spots and biases in Freud's work, Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, Jacques Lacan, Erich Fromm, Donald Winnicott, Heinz Kohut, Heinrich Racker, Ernest Becker amongst others offered useful correctives and innovations that are, nevertheless, themselves in need of remediation for their own forms of one-sidedness. Through Carveth's comparative exploration, readers will acquire a sense of what is enduringly valuable in these diverse psychoanalytic contributions, as well as exposure to the dialectically deconstructive method of critique that Carveth sees as central to psychoanalytic thinking at its best. Carveth violates the taboo against speaking of the Imaginary, Symbolic and the Real unless one is a Lacanian, or the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions unless one is a Kleinian, or id, ego, superego, ego-ideal and conscience unless one is a Freudian ego psychologist, and so on. Out of dialogue and mutual critique, psychoanalysis can over time separate the wheat from the chaff, collect the wheat, and approach an ever-evolving synthesis. Psychoanalytic Thinking: A Dialectical Critique of Contemporary Theory and Practice will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists and, more broadly, to readers in philosophy, social science and critical social theory.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Psychological Issues
Release date:	April 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	Donald L Carveth
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	270
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-56072-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > Psychotherapy
LSN:	1-138-56072-3
Barcode:	9781138560727

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Don Carveth's book is a must for those interested in this topic

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 | Review by: Anna

This is an important book to read for those interested in psychoanalysis because Don Carveth offers a lot of existing knowledge and then goes on to review and add new information from an informed perspective. In many ways Carveth is a thought leader and an excellent teacher who speaks in clear and accessible language

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