First published in 1984. The authors’ basic aim in this volume has been to set forth a certain perspective on psychological phenomena and to show how this perspective enables one to order and integrate data on symbolization and language behavior—data obtained by a variety of methods and garnered from domains that are too often treated in isolation from each other.
This book provides a comprehensive exposition of Kleinian ideas. Offering a thorough update of R.D. Hinshelwood’s acclaimed original, this book draws on the twenty years of Kleinian theory and practice which have passed since its publication.
Melanie Klein Today, Volume 1 is the first of two volumes of collected essays devoted to developments in psychoanalysis based on the work of Melanie Klein. The papers are arranged into four groups: the analysis of psychotic patients, projective identification, on thinking, and pathalogical organisation.
+This is the first unit of three devoted to an explication of the structure and function of symbols. The following topics are covered. Ch-1 SIMPLE SYMBOLS Ch-2 PSYCHOANALYTIC SYMBOLS Ch-3 POETIC SYMBOLS Ch-4 TRANSCENDENT SYMBOLS CH-5 - THE ONTOGENESIS OF THE SYMBOLIZING FUNCTION CH-6 – THE ONTOGENESIS OF SYMBOLS FROM BIRTH TO SIX YEARS OF AGE CH-7 - THE ONTOGENESIS OF SYMBOLS FROM THE LATENCY AGE TO THE ADULT YEARS CH-8 - THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF SYMBOLS CH-9 - DREAM SYMBOL CHARACTERISTICS IN SPECIFIC SLEEP STAGES CH-10 - CONSCIOUSNESS AND AFFECT MANAGEMENT THROUGH PSYCHOANALYTIC SYMBOL FORMATION CH-11 - SYMBOLS AND THE SENSE OF REALITY
This is the second unit of three devoted to an explication of the structure and function of symbols. In this unit the emphasis is on the psychotherapeutic use of symbols. The following topics are covered. Ch-1 SYMBOLS AND MENTAL ILLNESS Ch-2 SYMBOL THEORY APPLIED Ch-3 REGRESSIVE SYMBOLIZATION : Psychotic Ch-4 REGRESSIVE SYMBOLIZATION : Neurotic Ch-5 REGRESSIVE SYMBOLIZATION : Psychosomatic Ch-6 PSYCHOANALYTIC SYMBOLS AND TRANSFERENCE Ch-7 THE USE DURING CHILD PSYCHOTHERAPY OF THE SYMBOLS THAT OCCUR IN FANTASIES AND DREAMS
This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Multi-disciplinary Trends in Artificial Intelligence, MIWAI 2014, held in Bangalore, India, in December 2014. The 22 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers feature a wide range of topics covering both theory, methods and tools as well as their diverse applications in numerous domains.
Introducing Psychoanalysis brings together leading analysts to explain what psychoanalysis is and how it has developed, setting its ideas in their appropriate social and intellectual context. Based on lectures given at the British Psychoanalytic Society, the contributions capture the diversity of opinion among analysts to provide a clear and dynamic presentation of concepts such as: sexual perversions trauma and the possibility of recovery phantasy and reality interpreting and transference two views of the Oedipus complex projective identification the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions symbolism and dreams. Frequently misunderstood subjects are demystified and the contributors' wealth of clinical and supervisory experience ensures that central concepts are explained with refreshing clarity. Clinical examples are included throughout and provide a valuable insight into the application of psychoanalytic ideas. This overview of the wide variety of psychoanalytic ideas that are current in Britain today will appeal to all those training and practicing in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, as well as those wishing to broaden their knowledge of this field.
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Multi-disciplinary International Workshop On Artificial Intelligence, MIWAI 2011, held in Hyderabad, India, in December 2011. The 38 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 71 submissions. The papers cover the multifarious nature of the Artificial Intelligence research domain, ranging from theoretical to real world applications and address topics such as agent-based simulation, agent-oriented software engineering, agents and Web services, agent-based electronic commerce, auctions and markets, AI in video games, computer vision, constraint satisfaction, data mining, decision theory, distributed AI, e-commerce and AI, game theory, internet/www intelligence, industrial applications of AI, intelligent tutoring, knowledge representation and reasoning, machine learning, multi-agent planning and learning, multi-agent systems and their applications, multi-agent systems and evolving intelligence, natural language processing, neural networks, planning and scheduling, robotics, uncertainty in AI, and Web services.
