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Philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the A-rational mind /
Psychoanalytic theories have come in out of favour in the past hundred years. As a central theory behind recent empirically validated treatments such as mentalisation based therapy, there is a newfound interest in considering just what psychoanalysis can offer us in psychiatry and philosophy of mind...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry.
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Table of Contents:
- Just what sort of a theory is psychoanalytic theory?
- Did Kant precede Freud on a-rational thought?
- Why primary process is hard to know
- Representational a-rational thinking : a proper function account for phantasy and wish
- Drive theory and primary process
- Phantasies, neurotic-beliefs, and beliefs-proper
- Desire and the readiness-to-act
- Compare and contrast : Gardner, Lear, Cavell, and Brakel.