psychoanalysis

A historical context to psychology, the science of mind and behavior, provides an understanding of the richness and complexity of the subject.

Presents the life of Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychoanalysis. Includes film footage and photographs.

Presents a chronological analysis of the career of Viennese psychologist Sigmund Freud, showing how the doctor's ideas developed over time.

Contains more than 700 entries that provide a range of interpretations for symbols that appear in dreams and explain what they can mean about a person's ideas, beliefs, and fears.

Explores the phenomenon of slips of the tongue commonly known as Freudian slips, acts of forgetfulness, misinterpretations, and accidents, and explains what they reveal about the inner workings of the mind.

Presents a graphic novel featuring a true story from the life of the author, Raina Telgemeier. One night, Raina and her mother both wake up with terribly upset stomachs, but they both think it is just a bug. When Raina returns to school, however, and the trouble doesn't go away, it only serves to feed her worries about changing friendships, school, and food. She has to find out what is going on, and fast.

Presents two key writings by twentieth-century Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, in which he shares his thoughts on the relation between the individual and mass society, argues that self-awareness is the key to the survival of civilization, and describes how dreams offer insight into the unconscious.

Perhaps best remembered as the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud has become respected as a great thinker and therapist.

"Follows the early career of Sigmund Freud, from his training in neurological research to his establishment of a therapeutic practice in Vienna [discussing] the psychoanalyst's earliest clinical experiences, his studies alongside Charcot at La Salp?tri?re and his interest in the work of his friend and colleague Joseph Brueuer."--Back cover.