First Published in 1999. This is Volume XVI of twenty-eight in the Psychoanalysis series. Written around 1939 the purpose of this book is not to show what is wrong with psychoanalysis, but through eliminating the debatable elements, to enable psychoanalysis to develop to the height of its potentialities; that psychoanalysis should outgrow the limitations set by its being an instinctive and a genetic psychology.

Topics range from the neurotic need for affection, to guilt feelings and the quest for power, prestige and possession. First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1999. Psychoanalysis first developed as a method of therapy in the strict medical sense. Freud had discovered that certain circumscribed disorders that have no discernible organic basis-such as hysterical convulsions, phobias, depressions, drug addictions, functional stomach upsets --can be cured by uncovering the unconscious factors that underlie them. In the course of time disturbances of this kind were summarily called neurotic. Therefore humility as well as hope is required in any discussion of the possibility of psychoanalytic self-examination. It is the object of this book to raise this question seriously, with all due consideration for the difficulties involved.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.