Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index.
Contents
Phobia: a biological perspective / Richard J. Evans -- High anxiety: a Jungian analysis of phobia / Sylvia Cohen -- Phobic anxiety: learning from clinical experience and psychoanalytic observations of children / Christine Robson -- Phobia and object relations theory / Rosemary Randall -- Phobia as a quest for fantasy / Lieven Jonckheere -- Phobias and primitive psychotic anxieties / Deborah Wilde -- Fathers and phobias: a possibly psychoanalytic point of view / Roger Bacon -- The history of phobia: an overview of the development of ideas on the origins and meaning of agoraphobia / Siân Morgan.
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Summary
This volume in the seminal Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis Series is a daring reassessment of the psychoanalytic theory of phobia from numerous schools of thought.