Psychology Classics: Science and Philosophy, The Psychology and Psychotherapy of Otto Rank, and Dictionary of Hypnosis

by Alfred North Whitehead, Fay B. Karpf, Ralph B. Winn PhD

Overview

Three classic texts in one: essays by Alfred North Whitehead, an authoritative study of Otto Rank, and an essential reference book on hypnosis.

In Science and Philosophy, Alfred North Whitehead presents his mature thought on topics ranging from education to science and mathematics; from the theories of John Dewey to Albert Einstein. These collected essays cover his positions in a deep and extraordinarily unified way.

Austrian psychologist Otto Rank is one of the most influential figures of modern psychotherapy. A protégé́ of Sigmund Freud, he made significant developments in the fields of analysis, psychotherapy, counseling, education, and social work. In The Psychology and Psychotherapy of Otto Rank, social psychologist Fay B. Karpf—who studied with Rank—presents an authoritative analysis of his pioneering work and legacy.

Dictionary of Hypnosis has been an essential text on the subject since its first publication in 1965. Written by psychology professor Dr. Ralph B. Winn, this wide-ranging reference book provides a substantial amount of information on the history of hypnosis and its various uses in contemporary medicine, psychology and other sciences.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781504060400
Publisher:	Philosophical Library/Open Road
Publication date:	12/17/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	440
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Alfred North Whitehead, OM FRS (15 February 1861–30 December 1947) was a philosopher and mathematician. He is the founding father of the philosophical school of process philosophy. This school has found many areas of application to the disciplines of ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology. His early work was in logic, and physics. The three-volume Principia Mathematica (1910–13), written with Bertrand Russell is considered to be one of the most important classical works in mathematical logic. Starting late in 1910 Whitehead developed an interest in philosophy of science, and metaphysics. Whitehead’s main point of departure from western philosophy is that reality was fundamentally constructed by events rather than substances which means that both are intertwined in a web of reality. Whitehead argued that “there is urgency in coming to see the world as a web of interrelated processes of which we are integral parts, so that all of our choices and actions have consequences for the world around us.” 

Table of Contents

Science and Philosophy
Part I: Personal
Autobiographical Notes
Memories
The Education of an Englishman
England and the Narrow Seas
An Appeal to Sanity
Part II: Philosophy
Immortality
Mathematics and the Good
Process and Reality
John Dewey and His Influence
Analysis of Meaning
Uniformity and Contingency
Part III: Education
The Study of the Past—Its Uses and Its Dangers
Education and Self-Education
Mathematics and Liberal Education
Science in General Education
Historical Changes
Harvard: The Future
Part IV: Science
The First Physical Synthesis
Axioms of Geometry
Mathematics
Einstein’s Theory
Acknowledgments
The Psychology and Psychotherapy of Otto Rank
Preface
Part I: Introduction
Chapter I: “Art and Artist”—A Biographical Sketch
Part II: Analytic Background
Chapter II: The Freudian Background–Psychoanalysis
Chapter III: The Jungian Background—Analytical Psychology
Chapter IV: The Adlerian Background—Individual Psychology
Part III: Essentials of Rank’s Psychology and Psychotherapy
Chapter V: Rank’s Will or Dynamic Relationship Therapy
Chapter VI: Distinctive Aspects of Rank’s Personality Theory
Chapter VII: Oedipus Complex and Birth Trauma
Chapter VIII: Recapitulation and Underlying Philosophy
Major Works of Otto Rank (1884–1939)
References
Notes
Dictionary of Hypnosis
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Selected Bibliography