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Character analysis - Softcover

Reich, Wilhelm

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9780374120740: Character analysis
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ISBN 10: 0374120749 ISBN 13: 9780374120740
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972

Synopsis

Reich's classic work on the development and treatment of human character disorders, first published in 1933.As a young clinician in the 1920s, Wihelm Reich expanded psychoanalytic resistance into the more inclusive technique of character analysis, in which the sum total of typical character attitudes developed by an individual as a blocking against emotional excitations became the object of treatment. These encrusted attitudes functioned as an "armor," which Reich later found to exist simultaneously in chronic muscular spasms. Thus mind and body came together and character analysis opened the way to a biophysical approach to disease and the prevention of it.

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About the Author

Wilhelm Reich, a native of Austria, was born in 1897. His many other works include Listen, Little Man!, Function of the Orgasm, and The Mass Psychology of Fascism. He died in 1957.

Language Notes

Text: English, German (translation)

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
1972
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0374120749
ISBN 13 
9780374120740
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
3
Number of pages
545
Rating
  • 4.10 out of 5 stars
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