The Adaptive Design of the Human Psyche - Psychoanalysis, Evolutionary Biology, and the Therapeutic Process (Hardcover, New)

Addressing one of the most fundamental issues in any examination of human experience, this important new work connects evolutionary biological concepts to modern psychoanalytic theory and the clinical encounter. Synthesizing their years of experience in the practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, the authors provide a comparative psychoanalytic map of current theoretical controversies and a new way of deconstructing the hidden assumptions that underlie Freudian, Ego Psychological, Kleinian, Object Relational, Self Psychological, and Interpersonal theories. In so doing, they provide a new vantage point from which to integrate competing models into a larger picture that more fully embraces the many facets of human nature. Moreover, they offer clinicians a new framework with which to understand and respond to the inevitable paradoxes and conflicts that arise in the therapeutic relationship.

General

Imprint:	Guilford Publications
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 1992
First published:	1992
Authors:	Malcolm Owen Slavin • Daniel Kriegman
Dimensions:	236 x 162 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	336
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-89862-795-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory Books > Social sciences > Psychology > States of consciousness > General
LSN:	0-89862-795-8
Barcode:	9780898627954

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