The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason

Gellner, Ernest; Brunner, Jose

The Psychoanalytic Movement explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way in which the middle classes of the industrialized West speak about their emotions.

• Explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way for the industrialized West to speak about emotion.
• Argues that although psychoanalysis offers an incisive picture of human nature, it provides untestable operational definitions and makes unsubstantiated claims concerning its therapeutic efficacy.
• Includes new foreword by Jose Brunner that expands on the central argument of the book and argues that Gellner and Freud might be seen as kindred spirits.

Details

Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date: 2003-01-27

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780631234135

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Dimensions: 226.1cm x139.7cm

Pages: 254.0