Psychoanalysis: A Critical IntroductionISBN: 978-0-7456-1978-1
Hardcover
248 pages
June 2001, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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Craib argues that psychoanalysis is a depth psychology and a
developmental psychology, as well as enabling an understanding of
everyday feelings and thoughts. He explores the work of Freud,
Klein, Lacan, the object-relations theorists, attachment theory and
American self psychology, and feminist developments of Freud's
work. In the final section he offers an account of psychoanalytic
practice as a way of opening up a life and allowing it to develop
in different directions, and of enabling people to deal with the
inevitable failures, contradictions and disappointments of being
alive.
This fascinating book will bridge the gap between academic textbooks on psychoanalysis and the books written primarily for those training in the field. It will be of major interest to students of psychology, social psychology, sociology and social theory, as well as to psychoanalytic practitioners