Overview

The Psychoanalytic Movement explains how the language ofpsychoanalysis became the dominant way in which the middle classesof the industrialized West speak about their emotions.

  • Explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominantway for the industrialized West to speak about emotion.
  • Argues that although psychoanalysis offers an incisive pictureof human nature, it provides untestable operational definitions andmakes unsubstantiated claims concerning its therapeuticefficacy.
  • Includes new foreword by Jose Brunner that expands on thecentral argument of the book and argues that Gellner and Freudmight be seen as kindred spirits.

ISBN-13

9780631234128

ISBN-10

0631234128

List Price

$59.95

Edition

3rd Edition

Format

Hardcover

Pages

256 pages

Publisher

Blackwell Pub

Published On

2003-01-01



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