Psychoanalytic Theories of Affect.

An attempt to collate and clarify psychoanalytic theories on affect, and how they relate to the clinical process. Stein outlines and analyses the most important theories on affect, and examines empirical work presented over the past 100 years, exposing the rigidity of some existing notions. 220 page...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Stein, Ruth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Karnac Books, 1999
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • COVER; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Freud's Writings on Affect; 2. Theories of Affect in the Last Years of Freud and after His Death: Jones, Brierley, Glover; 3. Ego Psychology and the Affects; 4. Affects and Positions: Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion; 5. Affects as Feeling States and as Value Functions: Joseph Sandler; 6. An "Ego Psychological Object Relations" Model of Affect: Otto Kernberg; 7. The French School: Andre Green- A Discourse on Affects; 8. Recent Trends in Affect Theories in Psychology.