In:The Language of Psychotherapy
Rudolf Ekstein
[Foundations of Semiotics 11] 1989
► pp. v–x
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Published online: 1 January 1989
https://doi.org/10.1075/fos.11.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/fos.11.toc
Table of contents
1. The philosophical refutation1
2. The language of psychology and of everyday life13
3. The extension of basic scientific laws to psychoanalysis and to psychology21
4. Psychological laws and human freedom29
5. Ideological warfare in the psychological sciences41
6. The Tower of Babel in psychology and in psychiatry49
7. Structural aspects of psychotherapy99
8. Philosophy of science and psychoanalysis107
9. Thoughts concerning the nature of the interpretive process113
10. Reflections on parallels in the therapeutic and the social process145
11. Pleasure and reality, play and work, thought and action — variations of and on a theme155
12. The psychoanalyst and his relationship to the philosophy of science171
13. Psychoanalysis and social crises183
14. In quest of the professional self197
15. Must I have a philosophy of psychotherapy?217
16. Towards Walden III227
17. Metapsychology and the languages of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy241
Miscellaneous writings
18. A note on the language of psychotic acting out: Discussion of L. Bryce Boyer's chapter255
19. Karl Bühler and psychoanalysis261
20. A Home for the Heart by Bruno Bettelheim271
21. Psychoteherapy in America and in Europe: the twain shall meet275
22. Further thoughts concerning the nature of the interpretive process283
23. Robert Waelder's criteria of interpretation (1939) revisited301
24. Reflections on the concept of “borderline”: structure and process317
25. Freud and Adler: attachement and separation: A new glimpse at the relationship between psychoanalysis and individual psychology in 1982329
