Psychoanalysis, 9780199226818
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Psychoanalysis

a very short introduction

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  • Paperback

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    5 August 2015

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Summary

Unlocking the Mind: A Concise Journey into Psychoanalysis

Since its inception, psychoanalysis has been hailed as a revolutionary theory of how the mind works, whilst some of its ideas such as the Oedipus complex have become part of everyday conversation. In this introduction, Daniel Pick offers a lucid, lively, and wide-ranging survey of psychoanalysis.

This book offers the reader a flavour of what it might be like to enter treatment, and suggests the possible surprises that…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780199226818
ISBN-10:0199226814
Series:Very Short Introductions
Author:Daniel Pick
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:5 August 2015
Weight:147g
Dimensions:174mm x 113mm x 9mm
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Critics Review

an honest, direct, informative, and useful book.

Christopher Bollas, British psychoanalyst and writer

About The Author

Daniel Pick

Daniel Pick is a psychoanalyst and historian. He is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, a fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and of the Royal Historical Society. He is also an editor of History Workshop Journal, is on the editorial board of the New Library of Psychoanalysis, and a member of the advisory board of Psychoanalysis and History and Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture.

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