Instinct and the Unconscious (Classic Reprint): A Contribution to a Biological, Theory of the Psycho-Neuroses - Couverture souple

Rivers, W. H. R. H. R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440077606 ISBN 13 : 9781440077609

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Instinct and the Unconscious offers a biological look at anxiety, hysteria, and wartime shock, explaining how early symptoms are treated and things to watch for as a patient recovers.

The book links sudden fear and physical changes to instinctive processes, suppression, and the powerful role of suggestion, especially in wartime settings.

Through clinical discussion and case-style observations, it shows how paralysis, anesthesia, and other symptoms can arise as a way the mind protects itself from danger. It also explores how military training may heighten suggestibility, shaping how sufferers respond to treatment and regain function. The text places emphasis on education, reassurance, and gradual reintroduction to conditions that trigger fear, aiming to restore balance and prevent fear from becoming a lasting habit.

• Learn how early intervention can improve outcomes in anxiety- and shock-related states.
• See how suppression of affect and memory can shape hysterical symptoms.
• Understand the interplay between instinct, danger, and the power of suggestion.
• Explore treatment approaches that combine education, rest, and gradual exposure.

Ideal for readers interested in the science of war-era psychology, medical history, and the biology of fear and recovery.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The first gives the substance of lectures delivered in the Psychological Laboratory at Cambridge in the summer of 1919, and repeated in the spring of the present year at the Phipps Clinic of the Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, under the direction of Professor A dolf Meyer. The second part consists of appendices in which are republished occasional papers written as the result of clinical experience gained during the war. A few alterations have been made in these, chiefly in order to bring the terminology into line with that adopted in the body of the book, and in the second Appendix the original paper has been amplified. A few of the opinions expressed in these appendices differ in some respects from those of the lectures, but have been left as originally stated because they present alternative points of view which may possibly be nearer the truth than those adopted as the result of later deliberation. The general aim of the book is to put into a biological setting the system of psycho-therapy which came to be I generally adopted in Great Britain in the treatment of the psycho-neuroses of war. This system was developed in the main at theM aghull Military Hospital under the direction of Dr. R. G. Rows, to whom I owe my introduction to this branch of medicine and my thanks for much help and guidance when serving under him as medical officer. My thanks are also due in especial measure toD r. W. H. Bryce, who was in charge of Craiglockhart War Hospital while I was working there.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440077606
• ISBN 13: 9781440077609
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 265
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