Lectures on Psychoanalytic Psychiatry

Abraham Brill examines descriptive psychiatry from the perspective of psychoanalysis and shows how diagnostic categories change meaning when considering unconscious processes. The focus is on neuroses, psychoses, affects, complexes, the associative method, and free associations. The topic of repeated failures in love, business, and everyday life is also addressed, which the author links not to chance, but to deep internal contradictions.