The Psychoanalytic Movement

<i>The Psychoanalytic Movement</i> explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way in which the middle classes of the industrialized West speak about their emotions.<br /> <ul> <li style=”list-style: none”><br /> </li> <li>Explains how the language of psychoanalysis became the dominant way for the industrialized West to speak about emotion.<br /> </li> <li>Argues that although psychoanalysis offers an incisive picture of human nature, it provides untestable operational definitions and makes unsubstantiated claims concerning its therapeutic efficacy.<br /> </li> <li>Includes new foreword by Jose Brunner that expands on the central argument of the book and argues that Gellner and Freud might be seen as kindred spirits.</li> </ul>