A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis

(Paperback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

This dictionary provides helpful and incisive definitions which together create a commentary on psychoanalysis. The text has been thoroughly revised, with an extended introduction, 36 new entries and an enlarged and undated bibliography. The dictionary provides clear definitions of the terms used in Freudian psychoanalysis and other schools of thought; discusses these terms in full - their origins, their connections with other concepts, the issues raised by them and the controversies surrounding them; and gives the correct definitions of terms that are commonly misused by the media and the public, such as trauma, depressive, psychopath and schizophrenic.

Author Bio

Charles Rycroft was born in 1914 and was educated at Wellington College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He went into private practice as a psychoanalyst in 1947 and from 1956 to 1968 was a part-time Consultant in Psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic. He wrote many key books on psychoanalysis including 'Anxiety and Neurosis' (1968) and 'Psychoanalysis and Beyond' (1985). He died in 1998.