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  • All We Have to Fear:Psychiatry's Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders

    Psychiatry's Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders

    by Allan V. Horwitz, PhD, Jerome C. Wakefield, DSW, PhD ...
    Thirty years ago, it was estimated that less than five percent of the population had an anxiety disorder. Today, some estimates are over fifty percent, a tenfold increase. Is this dramatic rise evidence of a real medical epidemic? In All We Have to Fear, Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield argue that psychiatry itself has largely generated this "epidemic" by inflating many natural fears into ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Foucault Versus Freud

    Oedipal Theory and the Deployment of Sexuality

    by Jerome C. Wakefield ...
    Series series Psychological Issues
    In Foucault Versus Freud, Jerome C. Wakefield offers a novel analysis of one of the great intellectual clashes of our times, the attack on Sigmund Freud's influential sexual theories by the eminent French philosopher and historian of ideas Michel Foucault.Starting from Foucault's question, "What makes the psychoanalytic theory of incest acceptable to the bourgeois family?", and drawing on Foucault ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Attachment, Sexuality, Power

    Oedipal Theory as Regulator of Family Affection in Freud’s Case of Little Hans

    by Jerome C. Wakefield ...
    Series series Psychological Issues
    In Attachment, Sexuality, Power, Jerome C. Wakefield challenges established views of Freudian psychoanalysis by applying Foucault’s concept of ‘power/knowledge’ to Freud’s case of Little Hans, illuminating the role that Oedipal theory has played in reorganizing intimate family relationships.Combining close examination of the Hans case with accounts of the history of marriage and psychology of co ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Freud's Argument for the Oedipus Complex

    A Philosophy of Science Analysis of the Case of Little Hans

    by Jerome C. Wakefield ...
    Series series Psychological Issues
    In this close reading of Freudian theory, Jerome C. Wakefield reconstructs Freud’s argument for the Oedipal theory of the psychoneuroses, placing the case of Little Hans into a philosophy-of-science context and critically rethinking the epistemological foundations of psychoanalysis.Wakefield logically evaluates four central Freudian arguments: the "undirected anxiety" argument which contends that ... Read more

    Was $44.99 USD Now $38.99 USD

  • The Loss of Sadness

    How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder

    by Allan V. Horwitz, Jerome C. Wakefield ...
    Depression has become the single most commonly treated mental disorder, amid claims that one out of ten Americans suffer from this disorder every year and 25% succumb at some point in their lives. Warnings that depressive disorder is a leading cause of worldwide disability have been accompanied by a massive upsurge in the consumption of antidepressant medication, widespread screening for ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • All We Have to Fear

    Psychiatry's Transformation of Natural Anxieties into Mental Disorders

    by Allan V. Horwitz, PhD, Jerome C. Wakefield, DSW, PhD ...
    Thirty years ago, it was estimated that less than five percent of the population had an anxiety disorder. Today, some estimates are over fifty percent, a tenfold increase. Is this dramatic rise evidence of a real medical epidemic? In All We Have to Fear, Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield argue that psychiatry itself has largely generated this "epidemic" by inflating many natural fears into ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Freud and Philosophy of Mind, Volume 1

    Reconstructing the Argument for Unconscious Mental States

    by Jerome C. Wakefield ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book consists of a focused and systematic analysis of Freud’s implicit argument for unconscious mental states. The author employs the unique approach of applying contemporary philosophical methods, especially Kripke-Putnam essentialism, in analyzing Freud’s argument. The book elaborates how Freud transformed the intentionality theory of his Cartesian teacher Franz Brentano into what is ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Sadness or Depression?

    International Perspectives on the Depression Epidemic and Its Meaning

    Edited by Jerome C. Wakefield, Steeves Demazeux ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The World Health Organization states that depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and predicts that by 2030 the epidemic of depression raging across the world will be the single biggest contributor to the overall burden of disease of all health conditions. Yet this gloomy picture masks a number of paradoxes concerning the diagnosis and cultural interpretation of depression that ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    by Hermann Rorschach ...
    The widespread and growing interest in the Rorsehach test among English speaking workers has made apparent the need for a more easily available source of information concerning Rorschachs original and basic work than the German Editions supply. This English Translation is presented in the hope of filling that need. We are aware that this need has been met sporadically by various unauthorized ... Read more

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  • One Century of Karl Jaspers' General Psychopathology

    Edited by Giovanni Stanghellini, Thomas Fuchs ...
    Series series International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
    2013 sees the centenary of Jaspers' foundation of psychopathology as a science in its own right. In 1913 Karl Jaspers published his psychiatric opus magnum - the Allgemeine Psychopathologie (General Psychopathology). Jaspers was working at a time much like our own - with rapid expansion in the neurosciences, and responding to the philosophical challenges that this raised. The idea inspiring his ... Read more

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  • The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis

    by Otto Fenichel, M.D., Leo Rangell, M.D. ...
    A perennially best-selling and influential psychoanalytic work.When Otto Fenichel died suddenly at age 48, Anna Freud mourned the loss of "his inexhaustible knowledge of psychoanalysis and his inimitable way of organizing and presenting his facts." These qualities shine in his classic text, which has been a beacon to generations of psychoanalysts. Investigating the relationship between biological ... Read more

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  • Subjectivity and Selfhood

    Investigating the First-Person Perspective

    by Dan Zahavi ...
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