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1 online resource (xviii, 138 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-130) and index. |
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COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Psychoanalysis and magic; CHAPTER TWO A brief history of thought-transference; CHAPTER THREE Residues of the uncanny; CHAPTER FOUR Mothers and other ghosts; CHAPTER FIVE What is projective identification?; CHAPTER SIX Afterword; REFERENCES; INDEX. |
| Summary |
As Freud predicted, there has always been great anxiety about the place of psychoanalysis in contemporary life, particularly in relation to its ambiguous and complicated relationship to the realm of science. There is also a long history of widespread resistance, in both academia and medicine, to anything associated with the world of the supernatural; very few people, in their professional lives, at least, are willing to admit a serious interest in occult phenomena. As a result, paranormal traces have all but vanished from the psychoanalytic process - though not without leaving a residue. This. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Parapsychology and medicine -- History.
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Parapsychology and medicine. |
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History. |
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Psychoanalysis -- History.
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Psychoanalysis. |
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Telepathy.
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Telepathy. |
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Projective identification.
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Projective identification. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books -- History.
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History.
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Electronic books -- History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brottman, Mikita, 1966- Phantoms of the clinic. London : Karnac Books, 2011 1855758814 (OCoLC)701605080 |
| ISBN |
9781849409131 (electronic book) |
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1849409137 (electronic book) |
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1855758814 |
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9781855758810 |
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