Ego Psychology: Theory and Practice - Hardcover

Gertrude Blanck; Rubin Blanck

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231036159 ISBN 13: 9780231036153

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1974

Synopsis

This best seller breaks new ground by demonstrating how mainstream psychoanalytic theory has evolved into a psychoanalytic developmental object relations theory. The authors summarize the contributions of the major ego psychologists from Freud to the contemporary theorists, including the new findings of the child observationalists. By integrating these several contributions, the authors are able to show that classical psychoanalysis and ego psychology combine to form a unified theory that provides a more profound understanding of the borderline and narcissistic conditions as well as of the neuroses.

From this comprehensive synthesis of theory the authors derive techniques for the treatment of the more troubled patient and expand the classical technique for the psychoanalysis of neurosis. Recognizing that there are preoedipal developmental problems even in neurotic patients and that there are oedipal issues in the borderline and narcissistic patients, the authors demonstrate the applicability of developmental object realtions theory across the diagnostic spectrum and include a new chapter on termination.

Using numerous case illustrations from their own practice, the Blancks have constructed an extraordinarily comprehensive and readable text that updates psychoanalytic theory for the nineties.

(Leo Rangell, Past President, International Psychoanalytical Association )

About this title

About the Author

Gertrude and Rubin Blanck, Honorary Members of the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society, are the authors of Ego Psychology, Ego Psychology II, BeyondEgo Psychology, and Marriage and Personal Development, all published by Columbia University Press.

Review

An encyclopedia of modern pyschoanalysis. -- Selam Kramer, M.D., Jefferson Medical College

An encyclopedia of modern pyschoanalysis. -- Review

As rich and vital as the theory it explicates. -- Margaret G. Frank, Society of Clinical Social Work Psychotherapists

Edition details

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0231036159
• ISBN 13: 9780231036153
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 394