Ego Psychology: Theory and Practice

by Gertrude Blanck and Rubin Blanck

Book Overview

This best seller breaks new ground by demonstrating how mainstream psychoanalytic theory has evolved into a psychoanalytic developmental object relations theory. The authors summarize the contributions of the major ego psychologists from Freud to the contemporary theorists, including the new findings of the child observationalists. By integrating these several contributions, the authors are able to show that classical psychoanalysis and ego psychology...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231082924
• ISBN13: 9780231082921
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher