Ego, hunger and aggression : a revision of Freud's theory and method
"...A must for any serious student of Gestalt therapy. It contains seminal material that evolved into the theoretical framework set forth by Perls, Hefferine, and Goodman in Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality published ten years later in the United States." from the back cover
xviii, 332 pages ; 23 cm
9780939266180, 0939266180
27465332
Holism and psychoanalysis. Differential thinking
Psychological approach
The organism and its balance
Reality
The answer of the organism
Defense
Good and bad
Neurosis
Organismic reorganization
Classical psychoanalysis
Time
Past and future
Past and present
Mental metabolism. Hunger instinct
Resistances
Retroflection and civilization
Mental food
Introjection
The dummy complex
The ego as a function of the organism
The split of the personality
Senso-motoric resistances
Projection
The pseudo-metabolism of the paranoiac character
Megalomania-outcast complex
Emotional resistances
Concentration therapy. The technique
Concentration and neurasthenia
Concentrating on eating
Visualization
Sense of actuality
Internal silence
First person singular
Undoing of retroflections
Body concentration
The assimilation of projections
Undoing of a negation (constipation)
About being self-conscious
The meaning of insomnia
Stammering
The anxiety state
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Includes index