On the Early Development of Mind

Edward Glover

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781351501873
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

On the Early Development of Mind by Edward Glover covers a period of thirty years in which he gathered together and annotated his various contributions to this most obscure of all psychoanalytical themes. He approaches mind from various angles, in particular the vicissitudes of the libido, of ego-formation, and of the emotions. The work is offered in chronological order and with unabashed changes to enhance readability.

His clinical studies are orientated from the same angles and he deals, inter alia, with the developmental aspects of normal and disordered character, alcoholism, drug addiction, perversions, obsessional neuroses, and psychoses. Of out standing significance are his papers on the psychoanalytical classification of mental disorders, on the nature of reality sense, and on the 'functional' aspects of the mental apparatus.

Glover was well aware of the dangers of uncontrolled, abstract theorizing, and several of his later essays exhibit an unflinching resolution to apply the strictest scientific standards not only in the regulation of research and the control of technique, but also in the teaching and the training of psychoanalysts. The book represents a remarkable achievement indispensable to the psychoanalytical student, the psychiatrist, and all who wish to ground themselves in the principles and history of psychoanalysis.

Subject Index

Abnormality, concept of, 235–7

Aboulia, 272

Absolute normality, myth of, 219, 225

Abstinence, drug, 28, 198, 206, 211

Academic psychology, 45, 78, 253–4, 311–12

Accessibility, 364, 410, 416, 428

Accumulation and discharge

1. systems, 3

Active and passive

1. aims, 7–8, 22, 28
2. therapy, 42, 65
3. types, oral, 8–9

Actual neuroses, 73, 281

Adaptation, 82, 103

1. and character, 61
2. and normality, 24–8

Adolescence, 241

Adolescent taboos, 20

Affect, 75, 137, 255

1. and ambivalence, 300
2. analysis of, 79, 364–5
3. of bursting, 302
4. classification of, 299
5. and conceptual mesh-systems, 271
6. and depression, 302
7. and destruction, 305
8. and erotism, 300
9. expressive, 312
10. fixed or labile, 299, 301
11. and frustration, 300
12. fusions of, 80, 300, 344, 426
13. and hysteria, 303
14. infantile, 276
15. and instinct, 298–9
16. mixed, 300
17. negative, 426
18. and obsessional neurosis, 302–3
19. potential, 344
20. primary, 80, 298, 306
21. psycho-analysis of, 79, 297–306, 364–5
22. reactive, 312
23. and sadism, 303–4
24. simple or compound, 299
25. and sublimation, 147–9
26. and super-ego,...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Note
• PREFACE
• I The Significance of the Mouth in Psycho-Analysis
• II Notes on Oral Character Formation
• III The Neurotic Character
• IV Freud’s Theory of Inhibition, Symptom-Formation and Anxiety
• V The Etiology of Alcoholism
• VI The Psychology of The Psycho-Therapeutist
• VII The ‘Screening’ Function of Traumatic Memories
• VIII Grades of Ego-Differentiation
• IX ‘An Introduction to the Study of Psycho-Analytical theory’
• X Sublimation, Substitution and Social Anxiety
• XI A Psycho-Analytic Approach to the Classification of Mental Disorders
• XII On the Etiology of Drug-Addiction
• XIII The Relation of Perversion-Formation to the Development of Reality-Sense
• XIV Medico-Psychological Aspects of Normality
• XV The Application of Psycho-Analytic Principles in Psychiatry
• XVI A Developmental Study of the Obsessional Neuroses
• XVII Unconscious Functions of Education
• XVIII A Note on Idealization
• XIX The Psycho-Analysis of Affects
• XX The Concept of Dissociation
• XXI Psychology and The Public
• XXII The Future Development of Psycho-Analysis
• XXIII The Position of Psycho-Analysis in Great Britain
• XXIV Functional Aspects of the Mental Apparatus
• XXV On The Desirability of Isolating a ‘Functional’ (Psycho-Somatic) Group of Delinquent Disorders
• XXVI Research Methods in Psycho-Analysis
• XXVII The Indications for Psycho-Analysis
• XXVIII The Frontiers of Psycho-Analysis
• Appendix Edward Glover Bibliography
• Index of Authors
• Subject Index