Introduction to Key Concepts and Evolutions in Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Neuroscience

Introduction to Key Concepts and Evolutions in Psychoanalysis offers an accessible starting point to understanding psychoanalysis by focusing on seven key psychoanalytic models and their creators and how the field has evolved over time from Sigmund Freud’s original ideas. The book is based on the premise that Freud started a conversation over 100 years ago that continues to this day: who are we, why do we suffer so, and how can others help?

Alexis A. Johnson seeks to make the invariably com...