This detailed book provides a compelling insight into how attitudes to states such as nervous anxiety and hysteria have changed over the past century. The evolution of approaches to and the deifnitions of the conditions are also included.

Auteur

Oliver Brachfeld

Résumé
Including volumes originally published between 1910 and 1957, the Abnormal and Clinical Psychology set of the International Library of Psychology clearly shows the evolution of approaches to, and definitions of, conditions such as nervous anxiety, neuroses, hysteria, delinquency, insanity and mental illness, It provides a compelling insight into how attitudes to such states have changed during this century. Other subjects covered include psychotherapy with children, personality, abnormal psychology, the relationship between brain and personality and psychotic art.

Contenu

Chapter 1 THE PRINCIPLE OF SECURITY AND THE FEELING OF IMPOTENCE; Chapter 2 HISTORY OF A TERM AND OF AN IDEA; Chapter 3 PIERRE JANET, FORERUNNER OF THE THEORY OF THE FEELINGS OF INFERIORITY; Chapter 4 GENEVA STUDIES: CLAPARÈDE, M. GANZ AND R. DE SAUSSURE; Chapter 5 ALFRED ADLER AND HIS COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY OF INDIVIDUALS; Chapter 6 FRITZ KÜNKEL'S TREATMENT OF THE FEELING OF INFERIORITY; Chapter 7 PAUL HÄBERLIN'S ETHICAL INTERPRETATION; Chapter 8 WHAT IS A COMPLEX?; Chapter 9 ENVY AND THE FEELING OF INFERIORITY. THE PROBLEM OF AUTHENTICITY; Chapter 10 FEELING OR CONSCIOUSNESS?; Chapter 11 FEELINGS OF INFERIORITY IN THE NEW-BORN, AND PROTO-INFANTILE NEUROSES; Chapter 12 AUTO-ESTIMATION-ITS EQUILIBRIUM AND ITS DISORDERS; Chapter 13 INFERIORITY FEELINGS AND THE FAMILY PATTERN; Chapter 14 THE PROBLEM OF COMPENSATION; Chapter 15 THE INFERIORISING EFFECTS OF INDUSTRIAL STANDARDISATION; Chapter 16 THE LABOUR COMPLEX, OR FEELINGS OF INFERIORITY DUE TO THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF ECONOMIC LIFE; Chapter 17 THE COMPENSATORY FUNCTIONS OF CIVILISATION; Chapter 18 THE DIAGNOSIS OF INFERIORITY FEELINGS; Chapter 19 UNCONSCIOUS AUTO-ESTIMATION; Chapter 20 THE WISH-IMAGE AND THE NEGATIVE IDEAL IN RELATION TO INFERIORITY FEELINGS; Chapter 21 MAJOR FORMS OF THE INFERIORITY COMPLEX: NEUROSIS, PSYCHOSIS AND CRIME; Chapter 22 INFERIORITY FEELINGS AND SEX; Chapter 23 PSYCHO-GENESIS OF ART FEELINGS AND OF INFERIORITY; Chapter 24 RESENTMENT AND CATATHYMY; Chapter 25 FEELINGS OF RACIAL INFERIORITY; Chapter 26 THE JEWISH COMPLEX; Chapter 27 NATIONAL FEELINGS OF INFERIORITY, OR THE ETHNO-PSYCHOLOGY OF COMPLEXES; Chapter 28 THE GERMAN INFERIORITY COMPLEX; Chapter 29 FEELINGS OF INFERIORITY IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM;