Repetition and Trauma: Toward A Teleonomic Theory of Psychoanalysis

by Max M. Stern and Liselotte Bendix Stern

Book Overview

The culmination of over three decades of investigation into traumatic processes, Repetition and Trauma is the late Max Stern's pioneering reconceptualization of trauma in the light of recent insights into the physiology and psychology of stress and the "teleonomic" character of human evolution in developing defenses against shock. As such, it is a highly original attempt to reformulate certain basic tenets of psychoanalysis with the findings of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138872229
• ISBN13: 9781138872226
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"