Freud and Modern Psychology: Volume 1: The Emotional Basis of Mental Illness

by Helen Lewis

The tension between Freud's clinical discoveries about the power of human emotions and the theoretical framework in which he embedded these discoveries has been most eloquently detailed by Freud himself. His agoniz- ing reappraisal. in 1926, of the libido theory of anxiety is just one example. But, as is usually the case, theoretical difficulties point to gaps in existing knowledge. At the time when Freud made his fundamental discovery that hysterical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146843814X
• ISBN13: 9781468438147
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"