Basic Principles of Psychoanalysis

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, May 20, 1985 - Psychology - 298 pages
Written with wit, simplicity and sympathy, this authoritative sourcebook on psychoanalysis presents both to the layman and the psychology student the most basic understanding of the problems of modern life. The author draws upon the information compiled from extensive case histories to present both theories and their practical application. Originally published in 1949 by Doubleday and Company, Inc.
 

Contents

1 The Cathartic Method
1
Its Nature and Function
21
3 The Psychology of Forgetting
41
4 Psychopothology of Everyday Life
65
Its Technique and Tendencies
97
Its Function and Motive
119
Its Function and Motive Continued
135
8 Types of Dreams
157
9 Types of Dreams Continued
189
10 Common Forms of Psychoses
215
11 The Only Child
237
12 Fairy Tales and Artistic Productions
251
13 Selection of Vocations
265
Bibliography
289
Index
291
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A. Brill was the first psychoanalyst in the United States. He was also the first to bring the teaching of Sigmund Freud to this country and translate Freud's works into English. He also translated many works of Carl Jung. Brill was born in Austria and came to the United States as a teenager. Alone and penniless, he worked at menial jobs while learning to speak English. It took Brill only three years to complete his American elementary and high school education; in 1898, he graduated from the College of the City of New York. He went on to earn a B.A. in philosophy from New York University on a scholarship and received his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1903. As a medical student, Brill was interested in neurology and psychiatry, but it was a later meeting with Freud in Vienna that had the greatest impact on his life and work. Learning the essentials of psychoanalysis from Freud and continuing to correspond with his teacher and friend until Freud's death, Brill returned to the United States in 1908 and set up the first psychoanalytic practice in the United States in New York City. Brill's Psychoanalysis: Its Theory and Application (1912) was the first American book on the subject of psychoanalysis, and his Basic Principles of Psychoanalysis (1949) is the classic handbook of psychoanalysis for lay readers. Brill died in 1948.

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