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My Life in Theory

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ISBN-10: 1590511131

ISBN-13: 9781590511138

Edition: 2003

Authors: Leo Rangell

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Publication date: 3/17/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 9.33" wide x 6.15" long x 1.38" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Leo Rangell (1913-2011) psychoanalyst and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California.

Toward a Unitary Psychoanalysis
Acknowledgments
Preview and Overview
The Early Course of Psychoanalytic Theory
The Appeal of Theory
At the Beginning
Interpersonal Affective Tensions in the Early Soil
Unity and Pluralism from the Beginning
World War I: The Aggressive Drive
Freud's Second Phase
Post-Freud
The Second Stage of Divisive Theories
The Methodology of Scientific Progression
The Progression of Theory
Ideation and Affects in Theory Formation
The Expanding Field
Four Flaws and Fallacies
The Mainstream Is No Longer Main
A Unified Theory, and Diversity in Unity
Personal Scientific Odyssey
1940: The Field as I Began
The Reporter-Narrator
Medical School
Neurology
To Psychiatry, and into the Field of Psychoanalysis
The Writing of Papers
Otto Fenichel
Genealogy
The First Half of the Second Half-Century: The 1940s to the 1960s
World War II
The Army Air Force, 1943-1946
A Prophetic Group Effect
After the War: Los Angeles, 1946
Ego Psychology
Psychosomatic Medicine and Medical Psychoanalysis
The Splits around 1950
The Fifties
A Reflection on the Sixties
The Presidencies
Stanford: The Think Tank
The 1960s Continue; Platform to the 1970s: The Stages of Decline of a Unified Theory
The Crest of the Wave and the Downward Turn
The Cracks Now Within
Los Angeles: The Sixties
Topeka
Prelude to Rome
Rome: Kohut, 1969
Anna Freud
Reflections on Theory from the Vienna Congress
The Spread and Radiation: Receptive Soil
My Parallel Work on the Evolving Mainstream: The Intrapsychic Process
The 1970s and 1980s: Divergences
More of the Cumulative Theory; the Unconscious Decision-Making Function of the Ego; the Psychoanalytic Theory of Action
The Compromise of Integrity
Los Angeles from the Seventies
A New Order: The American as Target
My Contrasting Experiences in the American
Multiple and Reciprocal Changes
Toward Pluralism
Lay Analysis
Lawsuits
Wallerstein
Common Ground
Chasing the Irrational
How Many Theories?
It Is What Each Theory Omits That Is the Problem
The Positive Contributions of Many
The 1990s to 2000: Breaking the Bonds and Holding the Fort
The Final Theoretical Path of the Century
An Alternative to Alternative Theories
Total Composite Psychoanalytic Theory
Reason and "The Field" of Psychoanalysis: The Psychoanalysis of Public Opinion
Changes in the Role of the Analyst: A Process Under Strain
Knowledge and Authority
Enactment
Intersubjectivity
The Altered Ground
In the Meantime, Steady Advances
My Outlooks: Some Social Extensions of Psychoanalytic Theory
No New Paradigms
Barcelona, 1997: Honorary President
The New Millennium
January 1, 2000
Comings Together: Modern Klein and Contemporary Freud
Fusion and Secondary Revision: The Course of Schafer
Unity with Disavowal: Fonagy
Rapprochements: Continuing Conflicts
Regrouping
Loose Unity, the Latest Reversal, and Brenner's Change
When the Dust Settles
Anita Rangell's "A Day with the Wolf Man"
Wolf Man's Letter (with translation)
References
Index