FREUD EVALUATED : The Completed Arc by Malcolm MACMILLAN pdf

Freud Evaluated: The Completed Arc is a critical evaluation of Freud’s personality theory which, because it is historically based, provides an evaluation very different from most. What I do is to describe the observations which Freud made and set out the theoretical ideas he put forward for explaining them. I then try to judge the adequacy of Freud’s explanations against the logical and scientific standards of Freud’s own time.

It is largely this historical basis which leads me to believe that Freud Evaluated is a justified addition to what seems to be veritable torrent of books on Freud. My hope is that the historical perspective will give the reader a sound basis on which to make a judgement about psycho-analysis as a method of investigation and a theory of personality as well as a sense of what Freud was about from Freud’s own standpoint.

Contents

PART I BEGINNING ASSUMPTIONS

Ch.l Anna O. and the origins of Freud’s personality theory
Ch.2 Charcot, hypnosis and determinism
Ch.3 Freud, determinism and hysteria
Ch.4 Freud’s adaptation of Breuer’s treatment method
Ch.5 Causes and the actual neuroses

PART II FIRST THEORIES AND APPLICATIONS

Ch.6 Mechanisms of symptom formation
Ch.7 A theory of the neuroses
Ch.8 Expectations, actual neuroses and childhood seduction
Ch.9 Dreams and symptoms Ch.10 A theory of sexuality

PART III THE FINAL SYNTHESIS

Ch. 11 The ego and the ego-instinctual drive
Ch.l2 The instinct theory finalized
Ch.13 The structures of the mind

PART IV EVALUATION

Ch.14 Psycho-analysis as theory and therapy
Ch.15 Psycho-analysis as a method Ch.16 Psycho-analysis as science

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