Download e-book for kindle: The Mystery of Personality: A History of Psychodynamic by Eugene Taylor

In The secret of character: A heritage of Psychodynamic Theories, acclaimed professor and historian Eugene Taylor synthesizes the field’s first century and a part right into a wealthy, hugely readable account. Taylor situates the dynamic college in its catalytic position in background, re-evaluating misunderstood figures and occasions, re-creating the heady milieu of discovery because the suggestion of "mental technology" dawns throughout Europe, revisiting the widening rift among medical and experimental learn (or the sofa and the lab) as early psychology matured into valid science.

Gradual yet very important evolutions shape the guts of this chronicle: the ebb and circulation of analytic idea and perform, the shift from doctor-centered to client-centered treatment, the circulate from exclusionary to multidisciplinary, the evolving position of the therapist. And as will be anticipated from the writer, there's exact emphasis at the elegant in psychology: the philosophy/psychology fusion of the recent England transcendentalists, the conflict among spiritualism and technological know-how in Eighteen Eighties the USA, and early models of today’s spiritually-attuned remedies. Pivotal recommendations and key members coated are:

• Charcot, Janet, and the origins of dynamic character thought within the so-called French, Swiss, English, and American psychotherapeutic axis.


• Person and character: William James’s "radical empiricism"


• The upward push of psychoanalysis: Freud, the Freudians, and the Neo-Freudians


• Adler and Jung, who have been by no means "students" of Freud: towards, inside, and past the self


• Murray, Allport, and Lewin at Harvard within the 30s


• Culture and character, pastoral counseling, and Gestalt Psychology in ny within the ‘40s and ‘50s


• An Existential-humanistic and Transpersonally orientated intensity psychology within the 60s


• The present period: "science confronts itself", as neuroscience enters the picture.

Students of psychology and its heritage will locate during this inspiring narrative either chances for extra examine and a brand new appreciation in their personal paintings. The secret of character: A heritage of Psychodynamic Theories is a stimulating direction carried out via a grasp teacher.