Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

VI; 388 S.; 8°. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag.

Bemerkung:

Gutes Ex.; Umschl. stärker berieben. - PREFACE - PART I - GENERAL INTRODUCTION PSYCHOANALYSIS - INHERITED AND PHYSICAL FACTORS IN AETIOLOGY - ECOLOGICAL STUDIES - THE FAMILIES OF PATIENTS: GENETICAL STUDIES - THE FAMILIES OF PATIENTS: FAMILY ENVIRONMENTS - MENTAL DEVELOPMENT: INTELLECTUAL FUNCTIONS - FURTHER ASPECTS OF MENTAL DEVELOPMENT - DISORDERS OF MENTAL DEVELOPMENT - PART II - EXPERIMENTAL NEUROSIS - SOME APPLICATIONS OF BEHAVIOUR THEORIES DISORDERS OF MENTAL FUNCTIONS DISORDERS RESULTING FROM BRAIN LESIONS METHODS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY - REFERENCES. // The purpose of this book is to bridge this gap between the psychiatric clinic and the psychological laboratory. It will be of service both to psychiatrists who seek an explanation for their clinical problems and to psychologists who hope to find practical applications for their research work in the laboratory. The subject is presented in such a way that it will be of equal value to all who are engaged in medical practice as well as to many others who, though not practising medicine, are in some way professionally concerned with problems of nervous or mental illness or of mental retardation in children or adults. It is based throughout on facts obtained by careful research and shows that many of the older theories that have been accepted without question for two or more generations, do not in fact prove to be correct when examined critically. The first part reviews all the principal theories, including psychoanalysis, 'inheritance' and biochemical theories, against a background of experimental evidence obtained by recent research. This is followed by a detailed account of the effects of the family environment upon the mental development of children, in particular upon the development of intellectual functions, speech and language habits and sexual behaviour. Disorders in the development of these functions are also fully described. The second part discusses the mechanisms of behavioural and mental symptoms in their relation to modern psychological knowledge and includes chapters on experimental neurosis, applications of the behaviour theory, disorders of mental functions and disorders resulting from brain lesions. The final chapter discusses treatment and explains the rationale of modern psychotherapeutic methods.