Ego Psychology II: Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology

by Gertrude Blanck

Book Overview

In Ego Psychology II, Gertrude and Rubin Blanck elaborate upon ego psychological theory, extending and broadening it into a psychoanalytic developmental psychology. They present the unifying proposal, derived from Freud's concept of an overall ego (the Gesamt Ich), that the ego is the organizing process itself. Out of this basic proposition, a holistic conception of psychological development evolves.

Within the developmental...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231044704
• ISBN13: 9780231044707
• Release Date: October 1979
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher