Examines the major theories of psychoanalysis and discusses the changes in the psychoanalytic conceptions of psychopathology, personality development, and the human condition

Recent Developments in Psychoanalysis: A Critical Evaluation

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Eagle, Morris N.

Psychology & Counseling

McGraw=Hill

Toward a Unified Psychoanalytic Theory (Psychological Issues)

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This book aims to integrate different psychoanalytic schools and relevant research findings into an integrated psychoanalytic theory of the mind. 
A main claim explored here, is that a revised and expanded ego psychology constitutes the strongest foundation not only for a unified psychoanalytic theory, but also for the integration of relevant research findings from other disciplines. Sophisticated yet accessible, the book includes a description of the basic tenets of ego psychology and necessary correctives and revisions. It also discusses research and theory on interpersonal understanding, capacity for inhibition, defense, delay of gratification, autonomous ego aims and motives, affect regulation, the nature of psychopathology; and the implications of a revised and expanded ego psychology for approaches to treatment. 
The book will appeal to readers who are interested in psychoanalysis, the nature of the mind, the nature of psychopathology, and the implications of theoretical formulations and research findings for approaches to treatment. As such, it will also be of great value on graduate and training courses for psychoanalysis. 
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"Morris Eagle has an integrative mind that is in a class of its own within psychoanalytic theory and beyond. This book accurately integrates almost all developments in the last decades into the best established framework of psychoanalytic science and advances an exciting new vision of contemporary psychoanalysis remarkable not just for its clarity but for opening fresh clinical vistas. A virtuoso achievement of great value to our community." - Peter Fonagy, Professor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Developmental Science 
"In this impressive and scholarly contribution, Morris Eagle breathes new life into ego psychology. A resuscitation effort is quite timely as ego psychology has gradually been edged out of psychoanalytic discourse and replaced with themes derived from object relations, self psychology, attachment theory, and relational approaches. The author makes a splendid argument for how an updated and more comprehensive approach to ego psychology may be more user-friendly than the partial theories that seem to be more popular today. He points out that a unified psychoanalytic theory of the mind must rest on the placement of a "personal element", the "I", at the center of the theory. In this regard, he reminds us that our subjective experience is the core of true ego psychology. I highly recommend this extraordinary new book to all those who care about the future of psychoanalysis." - Glen O. Gabbard, MD, Training and Supervising Analyst, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in Houston 
"Along with four co-edited books, this is Morris Eagle’s fifth authored book, another classic. His lifelong line of research comes full circle. In this book, he confronts a central issue of our field today: the possibility of a unified psychoanalytic theory, the foundation for which, he convincingly argues, should be a corrected, revised, and expanded ego psychology Here the fil rouge that characterized all his previous books and papers is more evident than ever: he is not satisfied with remaining at the theoretical level, where we know he excels; he relentlessly connects psychoanalytic theory and clinical issues to theory and research from related disciplines. No doubt, this book will be a reference point for the entire psychoanalytic community, will be translated in other languages and will be used as a vital source for graduate courses and education and training programs in psychoanalysis." - Paolo Migone, M.D., editor of the journal Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane 
"In this dazzlingly brilliant and breathtakingly bold new book, Morris Eagle, psychoanalysis’s most astute theoretician and critic, shares his gripping vision of a revitalized ego psychology that draws on the latest discoveries in the psychological sciences while attending to the aspirations of psychoanalysis t

Mental Health

Routledge

From Classical to Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Psychological Issues)

The landscape of psychoanalysis has changed, at times dramatically, in the hundred or so years since Freud first began to think and write about it. Freudian theory and concepts have risen, fallen, evolved, mutated, and otherwise reworked themselves in the hands and minds of analysts the world over, leaving us with a theoretically pluralistic (yet threateningly multifarious) diffusion of psychoanalytic viewpoints. To help make sense of it all, Morris Eagle sets out to critically reevaluate fundamental psychoanalytic concepts of theory and practice in a topical manner. Beginning at the beginning, he reintroduces Freud's ideas in chapters on the mind, object relations, psychopathology, and treatment; he then approaches the same topics in terms of more contemporary psychoanalytic schools. In each chapter, however, there is an underlying emphasis on identification and integration of converging themes, which is reemphasized in the final chapter. Relevant empirical research findings are used throughout, thus basic concepts - such as repression - are reexamined in the light of more contemporary developments.

From Classical to Contemporary Psychoanalysis: A Critique and Integration (Psychological Issues)

This book aims to integrate different psychoanalytic schools and relevant research findings into an integrated psychoanalytic theory of the mind. 
A main claim explored here, is that a revised and expanded ego psychology constitutes the strongest foundation not only for a unified psychoanalytic theory, but also for the integration of relevant research findings from other disciplines. Sophisticated yet accessible, the book includes a description of the basic tenets of ego psychology and necessary correctives and revisions. It also discusses research and theory on interpersonal understanding, capacity for inhibition, defense, delay of gratification, autonomous ego aims and motives, affect regulation, the nature of psychopathology; and the implications of a revised and expanded ego psychology for approaches to treatment. 
The book will appeal to readers who are interested in psychoanalysis, the nature of the mind, the nature of psychopathology, and the implications of theoretical formulations and research findings for approaches to treatment. As such, it will also be of great value on graduate and training courses for psychoanalysis.

Subjective Experience (Psychological Issues)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Core Concepts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Psychological Issues)

In Core Concepts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, alongside its companion piece Core Concepts in Classical Psychoanalysis, Morris N. Eagle asks: of the core concepts and formulations of psychoanalytic theory, which ones should be retained, which should be modified and in what ways, and which should be discarded? The key concepts and issues explored in this book include: <ul>
<li>Are transference interpretations necessary for positive therapeutic outcomes? </li> <li>Are the analyst’s countertransference reactions a reliable guide to the patient’s unconscious mental states? </li> <li>Is projective identification a coherent concept?</li> <li>Psychoanalytic styles of thinking and writing.</li> </ul>
Unlike other previous discussions of such concepts, this book systematically evaluates them in the light of conceptual critique as well as recent research-based evidence and empirical data. Written with Eagle’s piercing clarity of voice, Core Concepts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis challenges previously unquestioned psychoanalytic assumptions and will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, and anyone interested in integrating core psychoanalytic concepts, research, and theory with other disciplines including psychiatry, psychology, and social work.

Core Concepts in Classical Psychoanalysis: Clinical, Research Evidence and Conceptual Critiques (Psychological Issues)

In Core Concepts in Classical Psychoanalysis, alongside its companion piece Core Concepts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Morris N. Eagle asks: of the core concepts and formulations of psychoanalytic theory, which ones should be retained, which should be modified and in what ways, and which should be discarded?  The key concepts and issues explored in this book include:   Unconscious processes and research on them - what evidence is there for a dynamic unconscious?    Is there a universal Oedipus complex?   The importance of inner conflict.    The concept of defense.  Unlike other previous discussions of these concepts, this book systematically evaluates them in the light of conceptual critique as well as recent research based evidence and empirical data.  Written with Eagle’s piercing clarity of voice, Core Concepts in Classical Psychoanalysis challenges previously unquestioned psychoanalytic assumptions and will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, and anyone interested in integrating core psychoanalytic concepts, research, and theory with other disciplines including psychiatry, psychology, and social work.

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Recent Developments in Psychoanalysis: A Critical Evaluation

Toward a Unified Psychoanalytic Theory (Psychological Issues)

From Classical to Contemporary Psychoanalysis: A Critique and Integration (Psychological Issues)

Toward a Unified Psychoanalytic Theory (Psychological Issues)

Subjective Experience (Psychological Issues)

Subjective Experience (Psychological Issues)

Core Concepts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Psychological Issues)

Core Concepts in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Psychological Issues)

Core Concepts in Classical Psychoanalysis: Clinical, Research Evidence and Conceptual Critiques (Psychological Issues)

Core Concepts in Classical Psychoanalysis: Clinical, Research Evidence and Conceptual Critiques (Psychological Issues)