Deep Analysis: The Clinical Study of an Individual Case

This book provides a comprehensive Freudian analysis of a single case, revealing the hidden depths of the human mind and its psychopathic aberrations. Despite its academic nature, it is accessible to the average intelligent layman.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 266 pages
Publication date: 01 December 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

First published in 1947, with a second edition in 1950, the original blurb reads:

This is an illuminating description of a complete Freudian analysis of a single case. From the first interview to the last, the reader's attention is engrossed with the almost-normal personality of the individual who is being analyzed. We see his thoughts, philosophy, and emotions gradually unfolding under the application of analytical technique (lightly explained in the second chapter), until – and this is where the book is such a tremendous advance upon the psychological novel – the very springs and mechanisms of his psychic pattern and emotional structure are abundantly and lucidly revealed. We see and understand the hidden depths of the nature of the human mind, and obtain introductory insight not only into normal mental functioning but into almost all its psychopathic aberrations, including frigidity, impotence, love, hate, hysteria, obsessions, and even paranoia and schizophrenia – all in minor degrees, an integral part of normality.

In spite of this, the book is light reading and, though particularly instructive to doctors and professional psychologists, understandable to the average intelligent layman.

This book is a re-issue originally published in 1950. The language used is a reflection of its era, and no offense is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.

Weight: 500g
Dimension: 216 x 138 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032170480