Basic Freud: Psychoanalytic Thought for the 21st Century
Basic Freud: Psychoanalytic Plotting for the 21st Century Books
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Freud’s theories demonstrates why they are still obligatory to understanding ourselves and the way we behave.
In Basic Freud, noted psychologist Michael Kahn shows that even in the age of psychopharmaceuticals and cognitive therapy, Freud’s major insights into the unconscious remain unsurpassed tools for understanding our behaviors, motivations, and emotions. Kahn presents key thoughts such as the Oedipus complex, the repetition compulsion, guilt, anxiety, and defense mechanisms, by the side of with recent research that has supported or expanded Freud’s findings. Kahn also presents real case studies from his own work as a shrink to show how Freudian plotting has been instrumental in helping his clients learn who they are and escape from destructive patterns. Lay readers and professional psychotherapists alike will benefit from Kahn’s fresh, informed, and unpretentious approach.
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Absolutely ignorant of the field of Psychotherapy, I read Robert Lindner’s “Fifty-Minute Hour”, and Bruce D. Perry’s “The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog.” I became intrigued and sought out a excellent source for more in rank as regards the history of Psychotherapy. Thus it was that I picked up this book.
Prof. Kahn is in private do and teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz (according to the back cover.) If his teaching is anything like his writing, then I hope to one day attend his lectures. Prof. Kahn introduces each topic and then presents concrete examples. He does this in a chatty tone, using anecdotal examples from his own private life as well as clinical examples. The book is liberally dotted with such anecdotes.
Each chapter in the book takes on a specific theory of Freud’s: Dreams, Guilt, The Oedipus Complex, etc. I read this book over the course of two weeks during my lunch breaks and in small segments over the weekend. I found the book so enjoyable that I was very reluctant to end it. It’s a pleasure to read.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have heard it said that there were only 5 truly fantastic minds: Newton, Copernicus, Darwin, Einstein and Freud. All of them, in some way said that we were the victims of invisible forces and circumstances. Newton said we had to succumb to invisible gravity, binding us with mathematical precision. Copernicus told us that we were not, sad to say, the focal top of the universe. Einstein said that there was no absolute frame of reference, that the passage of in rank is bound by the speed of light. Darwin said you were another monkey, get used to it. Freud answered in his own way the most vital question of all: Why do we do things we do not want to do? In other words what were the forces that determined behavior. What he exposed was the most obscure place of all: the undiscovered and unexplored realm of the unconscious that shapes and commands us all. Modern therapy has tended to minimize his influence and ignore his contribution, but we all owe him fantastic homage for making the fundamental concept of all modern psychology, that we are victim to internal and largely unconscious forces. Read this wonderful book and learn a new appreciation for perhaps the greatest mind that ever lived.
Rating: 5 / 5
Freud is one of those authors (like Hegel or Marx) that has had a profound impact on 20th century (and 21st century) life, but that is basically unreadable. It is better to read a book about Freud that to wade into his works (especially if your interest in psychology does not rise to the level of apt a psychologist). This book by Michael Kahn excellently clarifies Freud, his works, and his theories without getting bogged down with technical jargon or textbook-style language. Kahn’s succinctness and clarity made reading this book a joy. If you want to read one book only about Freud and his theories, this is it!
Rating: 5 / 5
For an simple to read basic overview of psychoanalytic plotting, I highly urge Michael Kahn’s Basic Freud. Basic Freud describes many theories about the unconscious, psychosexual development, the Oedipus complex, the repetition compulsion, anxiety, defense mechanisms, guilt, dreams, grief, and transference. Mr. Kahn uses simple diction so the book is very simple to know for those of us who aren’t psychoanalysts. Mr. Kahn uses case studies from his own do to help illustrate the aforementioned theories and how they play out in real life.
By delving into the unconscious Freud exposed so many possibilities for why we are the way we are and why we act in certain ways. This book is so enlightening to read and eye opening to the thoughts of Sigmund Freud and his theories on the unconscious.
Rating: 4 / 5
Having read “Civilization and Its Discontents” in college but not getting a lot from it, I keenly read Kahn’s well-written and engaging book on Freud. He breaks down many of Freud’s theories on sexuality, human development and parental relationships using examples from his own therapy do, as well as notes from Freud himself. For anyone interested in the human psyche, I highly urge this book.
Rating: 5 / 5