2nd Edition
by Ronald Britton (Author)
This second edition of Ronald
Britton’s personal reappraisal of psychoanalytic theories is based on
further clinical experience, further study of current neuroscience and
continued reflection on the relationship of brain and mind, selfhood and
self-awareness, belief and knowledge, and certainty and uncertainty.
Divided
into three parts – "Hysteria," "The ego and superego," and "Narcissism"
– this new edition adds content on brain, mind and self, the death
instinct and a discussion on the biological, psychological and
sociological basis of gender. It suggests that our increasing knowledge
necessarily produces a dissolution of our coherent concepts of mind and
brain, and that during this phase of creative dissolution we need to
reassess what we know and what we don’t know. Fundamental to the book is
the notion that human beings have to live with probability but that we
long for certainty, and create it for ourselves.
This
book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in clinical practice
and academia, as well as other mental health professionals and those
with an interest in psychoanalytic theory.
