Psychoanalytic Theory and Clinical Relevance: What Makes a Theory Consequential for Practice?

By Louis S. Berger

Book Overview

Berger grapples with the nature of "consequential" theorizing, i.e., theorizing that is relevant to what transpires in clinical practice By examining psychoanalysis as a genre of "state process formalism" -- the standard format of scientific theory -- he

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088163042X
• ISBN13: 9780881630428
• Release Date: August 1985
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"