In this comprehensive study of psychology, theology, and religious experience, the author asserts that psychology and religion can faithfully complement one another, even when the psychology in question is primarily grounded in Freudian analysis.

One hundred years after the birth of psychoanalysis, renowned scholar W. W. Meissner combines a comprehensive account of the evolution of Freud's thought with a synthesis of contemporary psychoanalytic theory that includes the contributions of Margaret Mahler and Erik Erikson, as well as those of Heinz Hartmann, Heinz Kohut, Otto Kernberg, Ronald Fairbairn, Donald Winnicott, and Anna Freud. Dr. Meissner details the development of psychoanalytic theory, tracing its evolution from the earliest stages of Freud's thinking to recent developments such as object relations theory and self-psychology. A chapter on psychoanalytic therapy completes this unique and essential volume. Freud and Psychoanalysis was originally published as part of a reference work addressed to psychiatrists. The University of Notre Dame Press edition of this classic study makes it available for the first time to a wider audience. The only contemporary work on Freud and the field he founded written by a psychoanalytic psychiatrist, this will appeal to everyone interested in Freud or intellectual history-therapists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, medical students, collegiate, graduate, and divinity students and professors, and the general public.

This authoritative new standard presents Freud as no other work ever has. Combining a comprehensive account of Freudian theory with a synthesis of contemporary psychoanalysis, this volume includes the contributions of Margaret Mahler and Erik Erikson, as well as those of Kohut, Kernberg, Hartmann, Fairbairn, and Winnicott.

Reknowned psychiatrist W. W. Meissner details the development of analytic theory, which has undergone a continual remodeling during the hundred years since the birth of psychoanalysis. Dr. Meissner traces this evolution from the earliest stages of Freud's psychoanalytic thinking to such recent developments as object relations theory and self-psychology. A chapter on psychoanalytic therapy rounds out this unique and essential volume.

This is the only contemporary work on Freud and the field he fathered by a psychoanalytic psychiatrist, and as such will appeal to everyone interested in Freud and psychology -- practitioners, therapists, psychiatrists, graduate students, medical professors and students, undergraduate professors and students, as well as the general public.

Addressing the common ground between ethics and psychoanalysis, W. W. Meissner asks "Does psychoanalysis have anything to contribute to ethical understanding and reflection?" and conversely, "Does ethics have anything to offer analytic understanding of the complexities of human behavior and decision-making?" This book explores and explicates areas of interaction and common interest between these two disciplines in the hope of opening the way to further exploration and dialogue in the understanding of the human phenomenon.