Inferiority Feelings: In the Individual and the Group [Paperback]

Including volumes originally published between 1910 and 1957, the Abnormal and Clinical Psychology set of the International Library of Psychology clearly shows the evolution of approaches to, and definitions of, conditions such as nervous anxiety, neuroses, hysteria, delinquency, insanity and mental illness, It provides a compelling insight into how attitudes to such states have changed during this century. Other subjects covered include psychotherapy with children, personality, abnormal psychology, the relationship between brain and personality and psychotic art.This detailed book provides a compelling insight into how attitudes to states such as nervous anxiety and hysteria have changed over the past century. The evolution of approaches to and the deifnitions of the conditions are also included.Chapter 1 THE PRINCIPLE OF SECURITY AND THE FEELING OF IMPOTENCE; Chapter 2 HISTORY OF A TERM AND OF AN IDEA; Chapter 3 PIERRE JANET, FORERUNNER OF THE THEORY OF THE FEELINGS OF INFERIORITY; Chapter 4 GENEVA STUDIES: CLAPAR?DE, M. GANZ AND R. DE SAUSSURE; Chapter 5 ALFRED ADLER AND HIS COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY OF INDIVIDUALS; Chapter 6 FRITZ K?NKEL'S TREATMENT OF THE FEELING OF INFERIORITY; Chapter 7 PAUL H?BERLIN'S ETHICAL INTERPRETATION; Chapter 8 WHAT IS A COMPLEX?; Chapter 9 ENVY AND THE FEELING OF INFERIORITY. THE PROBLEM OF AUTHENTICITY; Chapter 10 FEELING OR CONSCIOUSNESS?; Chapter 11 FEELINGS OF INFERIORITY IN THE NEW-BORN, AND PROTO-INFANTILE NEUROSES; Chapter 12 AUTO-ESTIMATIONITS EQUILIBRIUM AND ITS DISORDERS; Chapter 13 INFERIORITY FEELINGS AND THE FAMILY PATTERN; Chapter 14 THE PROBLEM OF COMPENSATION; Chapter 15 THE INFERIORISING EFFECTS OF INDUSTRIAL STANDARDISATION; Chapter 16 THE LABOUR COMPLEX, OR FEELINGS OF INFERIORITY DUE TO THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF ECONOMIC LIFE; Chapter 17 THE COMPENSATORY FUNCTIONS OF CIVILISATION; Chapter 18 THE DIAGNOSIS OF INFERIORITY FEELINGS; Chapter 19 UNCONSCIOUS AUTO-ESTIMATION; Chapter 20 THE WISH-IMAGE AND THE NEGATIVE IDEAL IN l#…