| Description |
xvi, 324 pages : portrait ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 307-312. |
| Contents |
I. Psychoneuroses from the perspective of positive disintegration -- 1. Psychoneurosis as a process of "positive" change of behavior -- 2. The nature of psychoneurotic conflict -- 3. Psychoneurosis as a process of developing a hierarchy of values -- 4. Psychoneurosis as a growth toward autonomy -- 5. The manifestations of psychoneurosis and their social undesirability -- 6. The developmental potential -- (1) Positive developmental potential -- a. Five forms of psychic overexcitability -- b. Manfestations of the developmental potential in children -- (2) The influence of the social milieu on different kinds of the developmental period -- (3) Negative developmental potential -- II. Five cases -- 1. Case 1, W.J. -- 2. Case 2, S. Mz. -- 3. Case 3, S.P. -- 4. Case 4, J.S. -- Case 5. Irene -- 6. Comparative analysis of the five cases: unilevel vs. multilevel disintegration -- III. Neuroses and psychoneuroses -- 1. Neuroses and psychoneuroses as disorders of function -- 2. The disturbed function -- 3. "Arrest" of development -- 4. Neuroses and psychoneuroses: commonness of occurrence -- 5. Classification of psychoneuroses -- 1. The role of subcortical and cortical centers -- 2. Release of tension -- 3. Autonomic disequilibrium -- 4. Psychosomatic disorders -- 5. Sympathetic and parasympathetic tensions -- 7. The etiology and the level of psychoneurotic processes -- 8. Endocrine glands -- 9. Anorexia nervosa -- 10. Conclusions -- V. Disintegration and psychoneuroses in personality development -- 1. Psychoneurotic traits and positive mental development -- (1) Enhanced psychic excitability -- (2) Tendency toward more of internal conflict and less of external conflict -- (3) Psychosomatic sensitivity as an initial condition of disintegration -- (4) Internal conflicts are not subconscious repression but conscious restructuring of different levels of the psyche -- (5) Regression as a purposeful behavior -- (6) Positive infatilism -- (7) Different levels of fatigue -- (8) Quietude and solitude as necessary conditions of psychic synthesis and integration -- 2. The role of polarity in the process of positive disintegration -- VI. Psychoneurotic syndromes according to the theory of positive disintegration -- 1. The expression of psychic overexcitability in psychoneurotic processes -- (1) Limited developmental potential -- (2) Strong developmental potential -- (3) Strong developmental potential with marked autonomous dynamisms -- 2. Case 6, S.M. -- 3. Case 7, Z.S, -- 4. Case 8, M.L. -- 5. Case 9, K.J. -- 6. Hysteria -- 7. Neurasthenia -- 8. Psychasthenia -- 9. Psychoneurotic depression -- 10. Psychoneurotic infantilism -- 11. Sexual psychoneurosis -- 12. Psychosomatic disorders -- VII. Inner psychic milieu in psychoneuroses -- 1. Origin and development of the inner psychic milieu -- (1) Unilevel disintegration -- (2) Multilevel disintegration -- (3) The level of psychoneurotic disorders as a function of the developmental level of the inner psychic milieu -- 2. Inter- and intra-neurotic hierarchies of mental structures and functions -- 3. Levels of functions in psychoneurotic syndromes -- (1) Psychoasthenia -- (2) Psychoneurotic obsession -- (3) Psychoneurotic anxiety -- (4) Psychoneurotic depression -- (5) Hysteria -- 4. Psychoneurotic dynamisms as preventitive and immunological factors -- (1) Psychoneurotic sensitivity -- (2) Psychoneurotic "unrealism" -- (3) The prophylactic role of isolation and hypomanic states -- (4) The prophylactic role of isolation and quietude -- (5) The prophylactic role of positive regression -- (6) The prophylactic character of different forms of hereditary endowment -- (7) Pathological versus psychopathic structures -- (8) Summary -- VIII. Psychoneurotic obsessions -- 1. The place of obsessions in positive disintegration -- 2. Classical theories of obsession -- 3. Clinical cases of psychoneurotic obsessions -- (1) Moral obsessions -- (2) Obsessions of self-destruction -- (3) Ambivalence -- (4) Obsessions of death -- 4. Obsessive processes in creativity -- |
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Neuroses.
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Neuroses. |
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Psychoses.
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Psychoses. |
| ISBN |
0901342092 £2.25 |
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