Repression and Dissociation: Implications for Personality Theory, Psychopathology and Health (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and Development)

Author: Jerome L. SingerPublisher: University of Chicago PressPaperback:ISBN 10: 0226761061ISBN 13: 978-0226761060This book features contributions from twenty six leading experts that survey the theoretical, historical, methodological, empirical, and clinical aspects of repression and the repressive personality style, from both psychoanalytic and cognitive psychological perspectives. "Rarely does a volume present contributions on a controversial topic from such distinguished clinicians and experimentalists . . . . There is something of interest in this volume for almost anyone involved in experimental cognitive psychology and psychiatry."—Carroll E. Izard, Contemporary Psychology "The concept of repression is the cornerstone of psychoanalytic theory. . . . This is a delightful book, unusually well-written. . . . Recommended."—Choice "Readable, thorough, wide ranging and consistently interesting. . . . A testament to the continuing power of psychodynamic ideas when faced with individ