Psychoanalytic Theories of Affect

by Ruth Stein

Book Overview

According to Ruth Stein, an updated and clinically-relevant affect theory is conspicuously absent in the field of psychoanalysis. This book represents the first attempt to collate and clarify theories on affect as they relate to the clinical process. Stein outlines and analyzes the most important affect theories and empirical work presented in the last one hundred years. She exposes the rigidity of some automatically held notions about affects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275939847
• ISBN13: 9780275939847
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.5"