Pivotal concepts and key individuals covered are: - Charcot, Janet, and the origins of dynamic personality theory in the so-called French, Swiss, English, and American psychotherapeutic axis. - Person and personality: William James’s"radical empiricism". - The rise of psychoanalysis: Freud, the Freudians, andthe Neo-Freudians. - Adler and Jung, who were never "students" of Freud: Toward, within, and beyond the self. - Murray, Allport, and Lewin at Harvard in the '30s. - ulture and personality, pastoral counseling, and Gestalt Psychology in New York in the ‘40s and ‘50s. - An Existential-humanistic and Transpersonally oriented depth psychology in the 60s. - The current era: "science confronts itself", as neuroscience enters the picture. The Mystery of Personality: A History of Psychodynamic Theories is a stimulating course conducted by a masterteacher.
- ISBN: 978-0-387-98103-1
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 470
- Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés