The Technique of Psychoanalysis - Couverture souple

Jelliffe, Smith Ely

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1444647792 ISBN 13 : 9781444647792

Editeur : Read Books, 2009

Synopsis

First published in 1918, "The Technique of Psychoanalysis" is a treatise on psychoanalysis by Smith Ely Jelliffe and the first book ever written that was devoted the subject of analytic technique. Smith Ely Jelliffe (1866 - 1945) was an American psychiatrist, neurologist, and psychoanalyst who spent most of his life in New York City. Jelliffe started began by studying botany and pharmacy, but changed course and began studying neurology in the mid-1890s, followed by psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, and finally psychoanalysis. This fascinating volume will appeal to those with an interest in the development of modern psychoanalysis, and it is not to be missed by collectors of vintage literature of this ilk. Other notable works by this author include: "Diseases of the Nervous System: A Text-Book of Neurology and Psychiatry", "The Modern Treatment of Nervous and Mental Diseases", and "Sketches in Psychosomatic Medicine". Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this book today in an affordable, modern edition complete with the original text and artwork.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Not in his goals but in his transitions man is great, and the truest state of mind rested in, becomes false. [C hinese Proverb.] The traveller in a foreign land who keeps to the main highways needs no guide. He does not even have to know the language of the country for a judiciously distributed pourboire will put him in touch with all the more common requirements of his surroundings. With his Baedecker in hand, he may even wander about in strange surroundings oblivious to the unknown claque about him and return to his haven of safety with an outline of the topography of the city, its bricks and mortar, and possibly its trolley cars. But were he to go into the by-ways, were he to reach out for an understanding of the rich life that is actually being lived about him, he is more or less shut off, and deaf and dumb must needs grope about if without knowledge of the language of the country. The doctor of medicine is in some such position his unexplored countries come to him, however, he does not go to them. His Baedekers Gray, Osier, and perhaps a rich library, furnishing the details of many complicated structures lead him through the more frequented paths of disease processes, but, like the real traveller he constantly finds himself lost in unexplored territory. A new language strikes his ear at every specialistic frontier that he would pass; a rich and apparently hopeless terminology has to be mastered if he would travel in new fields, and if he would know what is going on over the boundary he must make it a part of himself. It is of no service to him to rationalize his indolence by calling this strange speech new-fangled, absurd or unnecessary. To shut his eyes and ears to these new languages, refusing to learn them, only hampers himself, and the stream of active intelligence goes on, leaving him in an eddy of his own isolation. Words, concepts, generalization
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Read Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1444647792
• ISBN 13: 9781444647792
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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