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Author Guex, Germaine, 1904-1984, author.

Title The abandonment neurosis / Germaine Guex ; translated by Peter D. Douglas
Published London : Karnac Books, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (150)
Series History of psychoanalysis series
History of psychoanalysis series.
Contents COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR -- TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE -- SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE Clinical description of symptomatology -- CHAPTER TWO Structures -- CHAPTER THREE Aetiology -- CHAPTER FOUR Therapy -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
Summary First published in 1950, La nevrose d'abandon was and still is a ground-breaking work. Guex's research turns on two clinical observations: the frequent occurrence of analysands whose neurotic symptoms are unrecognizable when measured against any of the Freudian diagnostic models, and the relatively large number of these patients who sought help from her, having already undergone thorough classically Freudian treatments with analysts whose abilities were never in question, but whose efforts did nothing to relieve patient suffering. What all these subjects had in common, Guex observed, were extme and debilitating feelings of abandonment, insecurity and lack of self-worth, originally ignited by severe pre-oedipal trauma. Having described the neurosis of abandonment, Guex goes on to outline every diagnostic tool and treatment methodology, developed over many years, which can be deployed in the successful and lasting eradication of this pervasive neurosis. Despite its trail-blazing research and ideas, Guex's book never received the accolades or attention it deserved. Now, translated into English for the first time by Peter D. Douglas, it is brought to a new and wider audience, for whom the ideas it explores are just as relevant and significant today
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Parental deprivation.
Neuroses.
Psychoses.
Paternal deprivation.
Maternal deprivation.
Paternal Deprivation
Psychotic Disorders
Maternal Deprivation
Neurotic Disorders
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Paternal deprivation
Maternal deprivation
Neuroses
Parental deprivation
Psychoses
Form Electronic book
Author Douglas, Peter D., 1956- translator.
ISBN 178241326X
9781782413264
9781781814581
1781814589
0367327422
9780367327422
0429905750
9780429905759
0429480989
9780429480980
Other Titles Névrose d'abandon. English