What Do Psychoanalysts Want?: The Problem of Aims in Psychoanalytic Therapy

by Joseph Sandler and Anna Ursula Dreher

Defining the aims of psychoanalysis was not initially a serious complex problem. However, when Freud began to think of the aim as being one of scientific research, and added the different formulations of aim (for example, that the aim was to make the patient's unconscious conscious) it became an area of tension which affected the subsequent development of psychoanalysis and the resolution of which has profound implications for the future of psychoanalysis.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041513515X
• ISBN13: 9780415135153
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.