Models of the Mind: A Psychoanalytic Theory

by John E. Gedo

Book Overview

In an effort to expand the clinical theory of psychoanalysis, John E. Gedo and Arnold Goldberg delineate and order the various generally accepted systems of psychological functioning, considered here as "models of the mind." The authors provide a historical review of four major models of the mind: the topographic model, the reflex arc model, the tripartite model, and an object relations model. They then investigate the possible hierarchical interrelationships...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226284875
• ISBN13: 9780226284873
• Release Date: September 1976
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"