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Nervous and mental disease Pub. Co [Published Date: 1935]. Hard cover, xx, 176 pp ; Third Printing, 1946 ; 23 cm. Series: Nervous and mental disease monograph series, no. 52. Translation of Psychoanalyse der Gesamtpersonlichkeit. Authorized English translation by Bernard C. Glueck, M.D., and Bertram D. Lewin, M.D., with a prefatory note by A. A. Brill, M.D.
In good condition/ NO dust jacket. Tan paper over boards with brown lettering on front and spine. Light nicking and chipping to paper at corner tips and top and bottom of spine. Light to moderate overall scuffing, soiling, dampstaining and aging to covers as well. Binding tight. Previous owner's name in ink on top corner of front free end paper. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but unmarked with occasional light spotting. NOT Ex-Library. This work applies Freud's theory of the ego to the neuroses, based on two series of lectures delivered by Franz Alexander at the Psychoanalytic Institute in Berlin in 1924 and 1925. Includes a Foreword to the American Edition by A. A. Brill, Translators Preface, and Authors Introduction. Contents: Part One, The Dynamic and Economic Basis of the Neuroses - Lecture 1: The Direction of Psychoanalytic Development; Lecture 2: The Role of the Ego in the Neuroses; Lecture 3: Reasons for a Presentation of the Neuroses in Dramatic Form; Lecture 4: The Meaning of Doubt in the Compulsion Neurosis; Lecture 5: Summary; Lecture 6: The Problem of Etiology in the Neuroses. Part Two, The Instinctual Basis of Neuroses and Perversions - Lecture 7: Instinct Fusions; Lecture 8: Instinct Fusion and Instinct Direction; Lecture 9: The Instinctual Basis of the Neuroses.