Sentences with phrase «classical psychoanalytic theory»

He found classical psychoanalytic theory therapeutically inadequate, so he began to experiment with more active and briefer methods.

Sullivan worked closely with anthropologists Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead, and with Fromm and Horney as they together challenged classical psychoanalytic theory because of its inadequate instinctual and biological presuppositions.

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Freudian psychoanalytic theory was a crucial component of the Surrealist sensibility, and it also enjoyed a huge following among New York intellectuals; for Gottlieb, an additional appeal was that Freudian theory was saturated with allusions to classical mythology - the most famous instance, of course, being Freud's theory of the Oedipus complex.

Within the world of psychoanalytic theory resides what has become the accepted classical view of the human mind; a three tier system where human experience is