Organization and pathology of thought

Description:

The 27 articles translated from German and French which comprise this volume are extensively annotated and placed in an integrated setting considering the works of three different sources: psychology; psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The five groupings of papers are headed: Directed Thinking, Symbolism, Motivation of Thinking, Fantasy Thinking, and Pathology of Thinking. These are buttressed with an introduction and a concluding section by the editor entitled Toward a Theory of Thinking. The authors represented in this collection are N. Ach, K. Buehler, E. Claparede, K. Lewin, J. Piaget, H. Silberer, K. Schroetter, G. Roffenstein, M. Nachmansohn, S. Betlheim, H. Hartmann, W. Stekel, S. Freud, O. Fenichel, E. Bleuler, J. Varendonck, E. Kris, P. Schilder, H. Buerger-Prinz and M. Kaila. 787-item bibliography. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).

subjects: Psychoanalysis,  Thought and thinking,  Cognition,  Pensamento,  Thinking