Passions of the Mind: Unheard Melodies: A Third Principle of Mental Functioning

by Harold N. Boris

Book Overview

As social animals, each of us can only be partly understood through insights into our individual psychodynamics. There is, within us, another principle at work: to preserve the group, even at the expense of the individual.
In this innovative synthesis of classical psychoanalysis and recent interpersonal and object relations psychology, Harold N. Boris constructs a necessary bridge between individual psychodynamics and group dynamics. This bridge...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814712045
• ISBN13: 9780814712047
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"