Beyond Interpretation: Toward a Revised Theory for Psychoanalysis

by John E. Gedo

Book Overview

Hailed as "important book certain to stir extended psychoanalytic debate" (American Journal of Psychiatry) on publication in 1979, Gedo's Beyond Interpretation set forth a radically new theoretical framework and clinical agenda for modern psychoanalysis. The theoretical framework revolved around Gedo's reconceptualization of human personality as a hierarchy of personal aims culminating in a "self-organization." The clinical agenda followed from the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823604993
• ISBN13: 9780823604999
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Intl Universities Pr Inc
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.