The Road to Unity in Psychoanalytic Theory

Download or read book The Road to Unity in Psychoanalytic Theory written by Elliott Oring and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the approximately 100-year course of the development of psychoanalytic theory, from its Freudian foundations to its current fragmented state, psychoanalytic theory has largely abandoned coherence and the inspiration to understand the human mind, argues Rangell Far from suggesting that psychoanalysis be abandoned, he instead traces the evolution of the various strands of psychoanalytic theory so that what is valuable can be extracted and included in a new effort to formulate a unitary theory.