The Hidden Mind : Personality and Psychoanalysis
The Hidden Mind : Personality and Psychoanalysis

Author: Dr Sabry Fattah

Publisher: Dr Sabry Fattah

Published: 2023-12-27

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13:

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In this comprehensive and insightful book, esteemed psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Dr Sabry Fattah delves deep into the fascinating world of personality and psychoanalysis. Drawing on years of clinical experience, the author introduces readers to essential psychodynamic concepts and the intricate structure of personality. From the development of personality to the complexities of personality disorders, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the human psyche. With a clear and accessible writing style, the author guides readers through the fundamental principles of psychoanalysis, providing practical tools to understand and analyze the actions and behaviors of individuals. By unraveling the unconscious motivations that drive human behavior and the complex relationship between personality and psychoanalysis, readers will gain a unique skill set to decipher and interpret the intricacies of character and personality. From the earliest stages of development to adulthood, this text illuminates how personality emerges and evolves over time, while also examining the various types of personality disorders that can arise along the way. By equipping readers with practical tools for analyzing people's actions through a psychoanalytic lens, this book empowers individuals from all walks of life to better understand themselves and others around them. Whether you are psychology student, a mental health professional or simply interested in gaining deeper insights into the human psyche, this essential resource will prove to be an indispensable companion that will empower you with the knowledge and insights needed to unlock the hidden depths of personality. Prepare to embark on a captivating journey of self-discovery and understanding as you explore the fascinating world of personality and psychoanalysis.

Hidden Minds
Hidden Minds

Author: F. R. Tallis

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

Published: 2012-05

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1611455057

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Hidden Minds traces our enduring fascination with the unconscious and our attempts to tame it through hypnosis, psychoanalysis, subliminal manipulation, lucid dreams, and even the principles of the quantum...

Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film
Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film

Author: Trevor C. Pederson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-25

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 135139228X

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Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film proposes a way of constructing hidden psychological narratives of popular film and novels. Instead of offering interpretations of classic films, Trevor C. Pederson recognizes that the psychoanalytic tradition began with making sense of the seemingly inconsequential. Here he turns his attention to popular films like Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys (1987). While masterworks like Psycho (1960) are not the object of interpretation, Hitchcock’s film is used as a skeleton key. The revelation that Norman Bates’ character had been his mother all along, suggests a framework of reading a film as having symptom characters who are excised to create a latent plot. The symptom character's behavior or inter-relations are then transcribed to an ego character. This is a shift in the tradition of literary doubling from hermeneutic intuition to a formal methodology that generates data for the unconscious. Pederson continues the project of unifying competing schools into a single model of mind and offers clinical examples from his own practice for all its terms. Psychodynamic techniques that emphasize the importance of working with the body, the id, and the ubiquity of repetition are introduced. A return to Freud’s structural theory, in which complexes are anchored in the stages of superego development, is used to carefully plot and explain the social nature of the superego and its relation to authority in society (secondary narcissism) and the otherworldly (primary narcissism). Discrete phases of superego development and their ties to both the social and the id revive the grand promises of classical psychoanalysis to link with every field in the humanities. Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as scholars of film studies and literature interested in using a psychoanalytic approach and ideas in their work.

Exploring the Emotional Life of the Mind
Exploring the Emotional Life of the Mind

Author: Daniël Helderman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0429575289

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This highly innovative new book reconsiders the structure of basic emotions, the self and the mind. It clinically covers mental disorders, therapeutic interventions, defense mechanisms, consciousness and personality and results in a comprehensive discussion of human responses to the environmental crisis. For openers, a novel psychodynamic model of happiness, sadness, fear and anger is presented that captures their object relational features. It offers a look through the eyes of these specific emotions and delineates how they influence the interaction with other persons. As regulation of the emotional state is the core task of the self, dysregulation can lead to mental disorders. Clinical cases of post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and depression are discussed, using the model to outline the emotional turbulence underneath. Finally, the elaborated theory is used to analyse personal responses to the environmental crisis and political strategies that capitalise on them. This book will appeal to scholars, psychotherapists and psychiatrists with an interest in emotions and who wish to challenge their own implicit theory of emotion with an explicit new model. It will also be of interest for academic researchers and professionals in fields where emotional processes play a pivotal role.

The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis
The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis

Author: Elizabeth Howell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-05

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1317393511

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The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and Working With Trauma is an invaluable and cutting edge resource providing the current theory, practice, and research on trauma and dissociation within psychoanalysis. Elizabeth Howell and Sheldon Itzkowitz bring together experts in the field of dissociation and psychoanalysis, providing a comprehensive and forward-looking overview of the current thinking on trauma and dissociation. The volume contains articles on the history of concepts of trauma and dissociation, the linkage of complex trauma and dissociative problems in living, different modalities of treatment and theoretical approaches based on a new understanding of this linkage, as well as reviews of important new research. Overarching all of these is a clear explanation of how pathological dissociation is caused by trauma, and how this affects psychological organization -- concepts which have often been largely misunderstood. The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapists, trauma therapists, and students.

Psychoanalytic Thinking on the Unhoused Mind
Psychoanalytic Thinking on the Unhoused Mind

Author: Gabrielle Brown

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-02-18

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0429620780

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Psychoanalytic Thinking on the Unhoused Mind illuminates the psychological underpinnings of current societal problems: homelessness, mental distress, loneliness and states of societal breakdown and exclusion. Illustrated with a broad range of clinical work as well as thoughts on art and literature, the book brings to life complex tensions between the individual psyche, the group, and wider political and cultural structures. ‘Unhoused’ states of mind are explored in rough sleepers, ex-prisoners, survivors of institutional abuse and family trauma, and people living with personality disorder, addiction, psychosis and dementia. Chapters describe outreach, assessment and long-term psychotherapy, as well as reflective practice with staff teams and care systems, and learning from consultation, supervision and policy development. New therapeutic responses to chronic risk and to resilience are developed from psychoanalytic understandings of difficulties with containment and care. The collection will be of value to psychotherapists and other mental health practitioners, as well as those working in therapeutic, residential and criminal justice settings and outreach services.

Personality Theories
Personality Theories

Author: Albert Ellis

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 721

ISBN-13: 1412970628

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'Personality Theories' by Albert Ellis - the founding father of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy - provides a comprehensive review of all major theories of personality including theories of personality pathology. Importantly, it critically reviews each of these theories in light of the competing theories as well as recent research.

Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences
Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences

Author: Virgil Zeigler-Hill

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2020-03-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783319246109

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This Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of individual differences within the domain of personality, with major sub-topics including assessment and research design, taxonomy, biological factors, evolutionary evidence, motivation, cognition and emotion, as well as gender differences, cultural considerations, and personality disorders. It is an up-to-date reference for this increasingly important area and a key resource for those who study intelligence, personality, motivation, aptitude and their variations within members of a group.

EBOOK: Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour
EBOOK: Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour

Author: Nigel Holt

Publisher: McGraw Hill

Published: 2015-02-16

Total Pages: 989

ISBN-13: 0077169859

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Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour is here with a new, fully updated and revised third edition. Bringing new developments in the field and its renowned pedagogical design, the third edition offers an exciting and engaging introduction to the study of psychology.This book’s scientific approach, which brings together international research, practical application and the levels of analysis framework, encourages critical thinking about psychology and its impact on our daily lives. Key features: Fully updated research and data throughout the book as well as increased cross cultural referencesRestructured Chapter 3 on Genes, Environment and Behaviour, which now starts with a discussion of Darwinian theory before moving on to Mendelian geneticsCore subject updates such as DSM-5 for psychological disorders and imaging techniques on the brain are fully integratedRevised and updated Research Close Up boxesCurrent Issues and hot topics such as, the study of happiness and schizophrenia, intelligence testing, the influence of the media and conflict and terrorism are discussed to prompt debates and questions facing psychologists todayNew to this edition is Recommended Reading of both classic and contemporary studies at the end of chapters Connect™ Psychology: a digital teaching and learning environment that improves performance over a variety of critical outcomes; easy to use and proven effective. LearnSmart™: the most widely used and intelligent adaptive learning resource that is proven to strengthen memory recall, improve course retention and boost grades. SmartBook™: Fuelled by LearnSmart, SmartBook is the first and only adaptive reading experience available today.