Psychogenesis of Mental Disease (003) - Couverture rigide

Jung, C G

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0691097690 ISBN 13 : 9780691097695

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1960

Synopsis

The authoritative edition of some of Jung's most important writings on psychiatry

The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease presents some of Jung's most important writings on psychiatry, including "On the Psychology of Dementia Praecox," his landmark early study of what is today called schizophrenia. Also featured here are nine other key papers in psychiatry, the earliest being "The Content of the Psychoses," written in 1908, when Jung was a leading member of the early psychoanalytic movement. The latest are two papers written in 1956 and 1958, which embody Jung's conclusions after many years of experience in the psychotherapy of schizophrenia. These writings reflect the original techniques with which Jung is especially associated.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

'Psychotic contents, especially in paranoid cases, show close analogies with the type of dream that the primitive aptly calls a 'big dream'. Unlike ordinary dreams, such a dream is highly impressive, numinous, and its imagery frequently makes use of motifs analagous to or even identical with those of mythology. I call these structures archetypes because they function in a way similar to instinctual patterns of behaviour.'

The importance of this volume of Jung's writings on psychosis can scarcely be overrated both in historical terms and for the understanding of Jung's psychology. It begins with his famous work, 'The Psychology of Dementia Praecox'. It was this work that established his reputation as a psychiatric investigator of the first rank and it was this work also that engaged Freud's interest and led to their eventual famous meeting. The research in this work contains the seed of his theoretica divergence form psychoanalysis.

Following on from this are a further nine papers on psychopathology and schizophrenia revealing Jung's original thinking in this area and providing valuable insight into the development of his later concepts such as the archetypes and the collective unconscious.

Présentation de l'éditeur

First published in 1960. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 1960
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691097690
• ISBN 13: 9780691097695
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Adler Gerhard, Read Herbert
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible