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Personality Theories: Critical Perspectives is the groundbreaking, final text written by Albert Ellis, long considered the founder of cognitive behavioral therapies. The book provides students with supporting and contradictory evidence for the development of personality theories through time. Without condemning the founding theorists who came before him, Ellis builds on more than a century of psychological research to re-examine the theories of Freud, Jung, and Adler while taking an equally critical look at modern, research-based theories, including his own.
Psychoanalysis in Theory and Practice
Psychoanalysis in Theory and Practice
Chapter Goals
- Reveal some of the complexities of Freud's theories
- Present some of the controversies regarding Freud and psychoanalysis
- Contrast the Freudian view of the unconscious with those of recent neuroscientists
- Detail the theory behind psychoanalysis as a treatment
- Explain the process of psychoanalytic treatment
Freud's Concept of Personality Types
Psychoanalytic theory holds that as children progress through the five stages ...
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