Anxiety may be debilitating or stimulating; it can result in neurotic symptoms or in improved, heightened performance in an actor or athlete. It is something every human being has experienced. As Professor G. M. Carstairs points out in his Foreword: "During the course of the twentieth century we have found it progressively easier to concede that we are all to often swayed by emotion rather than reasonWe have come to recognize the symptoms of neurotically ill patients are only an exaggeration of experiences common to us all, and hence that the unraveling of the psychodynamics of neurosis can teach us more about ourselves." Although Charles Rycroft is also a psychoanalyst, it is as a biologist that he has made this study of anxiety, the three basic responses to it--attack, flight or submission--and the obsessional, phobic and schizoid and hysterical defenses. Written in precise but everyday language, Anxiety and Neurosis is based on adult experiences rather than the speculative theories of infantile instinctual development. Its clarity and authority can only add to Dr Rycroft's established international reputation.

Anxiety and Neurosis

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Rycroft, Charles

Psychology & Counseling

Penguin??Books

The aim of this reference work is both to provide a definition of the technical terms used in psychoanalysis, and to emphasize the philosophical, theoretical and semantic issues raised by particular analytical concepts and used by different schools of thought.

Critical Dictionary Psychoanalysis 1st Edition

Penguin Uk

Charles Rycroft's "Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis" is an established reference work providing clear definitions and critical discussions of the technical terms used in psychoanalysis. 'An accurate and witty guide to the meaning of psychoanalytic terms ...[it] also explains the various controversies which have disfigured the psychoanalytic movement and which are such a puzzle to those outside it. For anyone concerned with psychoanalysis and its offshoots this is an indispensable book' - Anthony Storr.

A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, Second Edition (Penguin Reference Books)

Reference

Penguin Group USA

The decorative dustjacket adds much to this vintage hardcover. (Don' t buy this one without the jacket) The dustjacket does show some wear along the edges from shelving. Book is clean and bright inside, VG+.

A critical dictionary of psychoanalysis

Nelson

Essays consider Freudian psychoanalysis, symbolism, Jung, Freudian slips, human sexuality, and the literary imagination

Psychoanalysis and Beyond

Univ of Chicago Pr

Anxiety and Neurosis (Maresfield Library)

Mental Health

Routledge

The innocence of dreams

Charles Rycroft believes that dreams are no guilty fantasies, no abnormal states, but innocent flights of the imagination, released from the censorship of the waking mind. In this intelligent, searching study he clears a path through the many debates which have arisen since Freud about the nature and symbolism of dreaming, exploring different theories and discussing dreams of every kind, from nightmares and fear of flying, to problem-solving and prophecies. Consistently interesting, these essays take us from the simple physiology of sleep and dreams, to such curious areas as the dreams of animals, and to wider subjects such as the relationship of dreams to the literary imagination.

Pantheon Books

Wilhelm Reich (Modern masters)

Psychoanalysis and beyond

Hogarth Press

PSYCHOANALYSIS & BEYOND

Self-Help

RANDOM HOUSE UK

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