Centres and Peripheries of Psychoanalysis An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Studies

This book provides an excellent introduction to the broad field of applied psychoanalysis and deals appropriately with clinical psychoanalytic concepts capable of being transferred from the analyst's consulting-room. It discusses developmental factors entering into forms of religious experience.

Foreword -- Introduction -- Centres of Psychoanalysis -- Anna Freud: a beacon at the centre of psychoanalysis -- Melanie Klein and W. R. D. Fairbairn: the clinical foundations and explanatory concepts of their theories -- The concept of transference: an introduction to its role in the psychoanalytic process -- Countertransference: some clinical aspects -- Peripheries of Psychoanalysis -- A psychoanalytic approach to the treatment of the schizophrenias in hospital practice -- A psychotherapeutic approach to the understanding and treatment of a psychosomatic disorder: the case of burning mouth syndrome -- Psychoanalysis and the study of culture and society -- Freud, religion, and the Oedipus complex: some reflections on the infantile origins of religious experience -- Psychoanalysis and literature: a psychoanalytic reading of The Turn of the Screw -- Psychoanalysis, cinema, and the role of film in the psychoanalytic process -- A note on Freud’s theory of the dream

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Ekins, Richard