Brunner, Jose
The Psychoanalytic Movement: The Cunning of Unreason
The Psychoanalytic Movement explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way in which the middle classes of the industrialized West speak about their emotions.
- Explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way for the industrialized West to speak about emotion.
- Argues that although psychoanalysis offers an incisive picture of human nature, it provides untestable operational definitions and makes unsubstantiated claims concerning its therapeutic efficacy.
- Includes new foreword by Jose Brunner that expands on the central argument of the book and argues that Gellner and Freud might be seen as kindred spirits.
- Author(s)
- Brunner, Jose
- Gellner, Ernest
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2008
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 3
- Page amount
- 256 pages
- Category
- Medicine, Health Care, Mode
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780470775301
- Printed ISBN
- 9780631234135