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The Psychodynamics of Abnormal Behavior

by J. F. Brown, Karl A. Menninger. 488 pgs.

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Contributors:

   J. F. Brown, Karl A. Menninger

Publisher:

   McGraw-Hill

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1940
Subjects:   Psychology, Pathological
Table of contents
CONTENTS
PREFACE vii
I. NORMALITY, ABNORMALITY, PERSONALITY 1. The Scope of Modern Psychopathology. 2. The Concept of Abnormality. 3. The Concept of Personality. 4. The Sources of Personality. 5. Summary. 3
II. THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY A. The Establishment of the Somatogenic Viewpoint. 1. Primitive and Precivilized Ideas. 2. The Ancient Civilizations. 3. The Middle Ages. 4. Some Early Skeptics and Humanitarians. 5. The Somatogenic Era. B. The Establishment of the Psychogenic Viewpoint. 1. The Development of a Scientific Theory of Hypnosis. 2. The Establishment of the Concept of Hysteria. 3. The Relationship between Hypnosis and Hysteria. 4. The Concomitant Development of Medicine. 5. Summary. 23
III. THE PSYCHOSOMATIC PROBLEM 1. Philosophical Aspects of the Problem. 2. The Somatogenic Solution. 3. The Psychogenic Solution. 4. The Organismic Solution. 5. Illustrations of the Organismic Solution. 6. Medicine and Psychology. 7. Summary. 48
IV. MODERN IDEAS REGARDING SYMPTOMS 1. Symptoms and Syndromes. 2. The Cause, Meaning, and Economy of Symptoms. 3. Phenotype versus Genotype. 4. Descriptive Symptomatology Established before Psychodynamic Theory. 5. The Terminology of Symptoms. 6. Summary. 71
V. ABNORMALITIES OF THE COGNITIVE PROCESSES (KNOWING) . . . 1. Our Contemporary Views of the Relationship between Knowing and Doing and Feeling. 2. The Cognitive Processes. 3. Disorders of Sensation. 4. Disorders of Perception. 5. Disorders of Attention. 6. Disorders of Association. 7. Disorders of Memory. 8. Disorders of Thought. 9. An Actual Case in Way of Summary. 84
VI. ABNORMALITIES OF THE MOTOR PROCESSES (DOING) 1. The Motor Processes. 2. Disorders of Muscular Activity. 3. Reflex Disorders. 4. Habit Disorders. 5. Disorders of Voluntary Acts. 6. Disorders of Total Behavior. 7. Return to Case in Way of Summary. 110
VII. ABNORMALITIES OF THE EMOTIONAL PROCESSES (FEELING) 1. The Emotional Processes. 2. Pleasantness and Unpleasantness. 3. Disorders of Mcod. 4. Fear and Rage. 5. Love and Hate. 6. Return to Case in Way of Summary. 123
VIII. THE METHODOLOGICAL BASIS OF PSYCHODYNAMIC THEORY 1. Field Theory, 2. Points on Which All Modern Dynamic Theories Agree. 3. interpersonal Relations and the Social Field. 4. Psychoanatytic Theory as a Type of Field Theory. 5. Summary. 139
IX. PSYCHOANALYSIS: BASIC POSTULATES; THEORY OF PERSONALITY 1. The History of Psychoanalysis. 2. Basic Postulates of Psychoanalysis. 3. The Structure cf the Personality. 4 Mechanisms. 5. Summary. 152
X. PSYCHOANALYSIS; THEORY OF PSYCHOSEXUAL GENESIS 1. Evidence for the Psychoanalytic Theory. 2. Why the "Norman" Adult Finds Psychoanalysis Hard to Accept. 3. The Oral Stage. 4. The Anal Stage. 5. The Phallic Stage. 6. The Latency Period. 7. The Genital Stage. 8. Summary: Résumé of the Developmental Process. 178
XI. PSYCHOANALYSIS: THE CONDITIONING OF NORMAL BEHAVIOR 1. The Effect of Infantile Sexuality on the "Normal" Adult Personality. 2. Normal Behavior and Character Traits Derived from Oral Sexuality, 3. Normal Behavior and Character Traits Derived from Anal Sexuality. 4. The Genital Stages, 5. The Theory of Dreams. 6. Psychopathology of Everyday Life. 209
XII. PSYCHOANALYSIS: SUMMARY; CRITICISM 1. Summary of the Psychoanalytic Theory. 2. Criticism of Psychoanalysis, 3. Other Psychoanalytic Literature Outside the Scope of This Work. 238
XIII. OTHER THEORETICAL APPROACHES 1. The Scone of This Chapter. 2. Psychodynamic Schools Deviating from the Freudian, 3. The Characterological Approach. 4. The Sociological and Ethnological Approach. 5. Endocrinological and Biochemical Approaches. 5. Summary. 257
XIV. PSYCHIATRY AS A BRANCH OF MEDICINE 1. The Psychiatrist and His Training. 2. The Extent of Psychiatric Problems in the Modern World. 3. Nosology and Diagnosis, 4. Psychoanalysis. 5. Other Forms of Psychotherapy. 6. Reeducation: The Aim of All Psychotherapy. 7. Summary. 271
XV. THE PSYCHOSES PRIMARY ORGANIC IN ORIGIN 1. The Concept Psychosis. 2. The Organic Factor in Psychosis. 3. Paresis. 4. Other Psychoses of a Primarily Organic Etiology. 300
XVI. THE PSYCHOSES PRIMARILY FUNCTIONAL IN ORIGIN 1. The Extent of the Problem of Functional Psychoses. 2. The Schizophrenias. 3. The Manic-depressive Psychosis. 4. Paranoia. 5. Other Psychoses Primarily Functional in Nature. 316
XVII. THE BORDERLINE DISEASES 1. The Scope of This Chapter. 2. Hypophrenia. 3. Senile Psychoses. 4. Epilepsy. 5. Pathoneuroses and Organ Neuroses. 337
XVIII. THE Psychoneuroses 1. The Differentiae of Psychoneurosis. 2. The Scope of Psychoneurotic Behavior. 3. The Nosology of the Psychoneuroses. 4. The Obsessional Neurosis. 5. The Compulsion Neurosis. 6. The Anxiety Neurosis, Neurasthenia. 7. Anxiety Hysteria, Phobias. 8. Conversion Hysteria. 351
XIX. ABNORMALITIES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 1. The Relationship between Perverse Sexual Behavior and Mental Disease. 2. What Constitutes Perversion in Sexual Behavior. 3. The A. and Hyper-functions of Sexuality. 4. The Para Functions of Sexuality. 369
XX. CHARACTER DISORDERS 1. The Scope of the Problem of Character Disorders. 2. The Psychoanalytic Theory of Character Disorder. 3. Character Disorders Related to Infantile Sexual Fixation. 4. Character Defects Related to Psychosis and Psychoneurosis. 5. Character Disorders Related to Perversion. 6. Alcohol Addiction. 7. Criminality. 384
XXI. GENIUS 1. Swing and the Id. 2. Psychoanalytic Theory of Genius. 3. The Genius and the Neurotic. 4. The Product of the Artist: Psychodynamic Aspects of Form and Content. 5. The Audience. 6. The Motivation of Science and Philosophy. 404
XXII. TOWARD AN EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY 1. The Present Status of Psychodynamics. 2. Prerequisites to Experimental Psychopathology. 3. The Recording of Bodily Changes in Emotion. 4. The Standard Tests. 5. Comparative Psychopathology. 6. The Topological Approach. 7. Other Approaches. 8. The Future Outlook for Psychodynamic Theory. 427
BIBLIOGRAPHY 453
AUTHOR INDEX 471
SUBJECT INDEX 477
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