Eliminating the Unconscious
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Eliminating the Unconscious

A Behaviourist View of Psycho-Analysis

  1. 190 pages
  2. English
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Eliminating the Unconscious

A Behaviourist View of Psycho-Analysis

About this book

Eliminating the Unconscious, A Behaviourist View of Psycho-analysis describes the concepts of psycho-analysis in terms of an appropriate understanding in defining psycho-analytic findings. This book attempts to bridge the gap separating psycho-analysis from other areas of psychology because of the presence of conflicting views of psycho-analysis and psychology. The scope is to present that, in principle, the psycho-analytic situation also allows for rational study, with the aim of reformulating some traditional psycho-analytic beliefs into behaviorist concepts. The author then proceeds to compare psycho-analysis and the scientific method, and then evaluates mental and physical illness in new terms. The author also negates the existence of the ""unconscious, "" but as something called ""facon de parler, "" which would make the study of psycho-analysis manageable. The book goes on to describe unconscious mental processes, the ego, super-ego, and id. The text discusses that unconscious mental processes, such as repression, regression, projection, identification, scapegoating, and overcompensation, are really about behavior. The author also takes to task the behaviorist account of psycho-analytic hypothesis of unconscious symbolism, asserting that if such accounts are assumed as true, it can lead to commitments of ""differential predictions."" The author concludes that in discussing psycho-analysis, talk of traditional philosophical dualism and the like should be avoided. Psychiatrists, psycho-analysts, psychologists, behavioral scientists, and students of psychology and its related branches will find this book unique.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Eliminating the Unconscious: A Behaviourist View of Psycho-Analysis
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Author's Preface
  7. CHAPTER I. Introductory
  8. CHAPTER II. Psycho-analysis and Scientific Method
  9. CHAPTER III. In Defence of Behaviourism
  10. CHAPTER IV. Mental and Physical Illness
  11. CHAPTER V. Inner and Outer Reality
  12. CHAPTER VI. The Unconscious
  13. CHAPTER VII. Unconscious Mental Processes
  14. CHAPTER VIII. Ego, Super-ego, and Id
  15. CHAPTER IX. Defence-mechanisms
  16. CHAPTER X. Unconscious Symbolism
  17. CHAPTER XI. Interpretative Language
  18. CHAPTER XII. Conclusions and Some Further Suggestions
  19. References
  20. Name Index
  21. Subject Index