Knowledge in a Nutshell: Sigmund Freud

Alan Porter is the Assistant Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Westminster where he has taught the BSc Psychology course for many years. He studied psychology at the Polytechnic of Central London and the London School of Economics. He has over 25 years experience of teaching social psychology and the history of psychology. Alan's research interests are in the history and philosophy of psychology, social representations and how academic psychology is understood and used in everyday life.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Mind, Madness and Psychiatry Before Freud
Chapter 2: Freud as a zoologist, neurologist and physician
Chapter 3: Freud the Neurologist
Chapter 4: The Birth of Psychoanalysis
Chapter 5: The Case Histories
Chapter 6: The Methodology of Psychoanalysis
Chapter 7: Key Psychoanalytic Concepts
Chapter 8: The Early Growth of the Psychoanalytic Movement
Chapter 9: Conflicts and Controversies
Chapter 10: Freud Outside the Clinic
Chapter 11: Current Evaluations of Freud and Psychoanalysis
Glossary
Index
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