The Basic Neurosis, Oral Regression and Psychic Masochism.

Bergler, Edmund

Grune Stratton

Conflict in Marriage: The Unhappy Divorced

Parenting & Relationships

Family Relationships

Intl Universities Pr Inc

Curable and Incurable Neurotics: Problems of "Neurotic" Versus "Malignant" Psychic Masochism

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Divorce won't help

International Universities Press

Money and Emotional Conflicts

Principles of self-damage

Principles of Self-Damage

Psychology & Counseling

Chapters: 1. Is Everyone who gambles a Gambler? 2. The Gambler's Conscious Motivations 3. Where logic ends, and unconscious takes over 4. The mysterious thrill in gambling 5. The feeling of uncanniness in gambling 6. The inner identity of gambes of "chance" and of "reasoning". 7. Speculators, big and small 8. Typology of Gamblers 9. The clinical complexity of Gamblers 10. Excerpts from case histories of five analytically cured Gamblers 11. Superstitution and systems in gambling 12. Gambling - a losing proposition 244 pages

The Psychology of Gambling

Edmund Bergler's pioneering study of the emotional conflicts of the middle-aged man, with chapters on "the rebel", the rebel's wife, children as judges, "resignation is not the way out."

The Revolt of the Middle-Aged Man

The Superego's Power and Its Subterfuge; Impersonal Biology and Two Hurts in Frustration; Constant "Reflormulation" of the Oral-Megolomaniacal Material in the "Language" of the Later Stages; The Life Bood of Neurosis---Psychic Masochism; The Slightly paradoxical Moral Code of the Unconsious Ego and the Mechanism of Taking the Blame for the Lesser Crime; Differences between External and Internal Justice; The Unconcsious Process of Resolving Normal and Neurotic Guilt; The Pseudo-Moral Connotation of Neurotic Symptoms; Dreams and Inner Conscience; First Thughts on Awakening and Our Daily Moods; Are Parents or Inner Conscience to Blame fo the Neuroses of Children?  The Tragicomedy of It All: Superego Triumphant---Man Dangling from the Shoestring of Twin Alibis. Index.

The Superego: Unconscious Conscience : The Key to the Theory and Therapy of Neurosis

Text shows the 'mechanism of stupidity' to be a subdivision of masochistic neurosis. The author's psychodynamic formulations help the analyst with the theoretical and clinical puzzles connected with 'stupidity.' For psychiatrists. This text is an original, previously unpublished work of Bergler, who passed away in 1962.

The Talent for Stupidity: The Psychology of the Bungler, the Incompetent, and the Ineffectual

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