Table of Contents

Part I Preliminary Considerations; Part 1a A. Introduction; Chapter I Introductory Remarks on Psychoanalysis and the Theory of Neurosis; Chapter II The Dynamic, the Economic, and the Structural Points of View; Chapter III The Method of Psychoanalysis; Part 1b B. The Mental Development; Chapter IV Early Mental Development: The Archaic Ego; Chapter V Early Mental Development (Continued): Development of Instincts, Infantile Sexuality; Chapter VI Later Phases of Development: The Superego; Part II Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis; Part 2a A. Traumatic Neuroses; Chapter VII Traumatic Neuroses; Part 2b B. Psychoneuroses, the Neurotic Conflict; Chapter VIII The Motives of Defense; Chapter IX The Mechanisms of Defense; Chapter X The Direct Clinical Symptoms of the Neurotic Conflict; Part 2c C. Psychoneuroses. Mechanisms of Symptom Formation, and Special Neuroses; Chapter XI Anxiety as Neurotic Symptom: Anxiety Hysteria; Chapter XII Conversion; Chapter XIII Organ Neuroses; Chapter XIV Obsession and Compulsion; Chapter XV Pregenital Conversions; Chapter XVI Perversions and Impulse Neuroses; Chapter XVII Depression and Mania; Chapter XVIII Schizophrenia; Part 2d D. Psychoneuroses, the Secondary Elaborations of Symptoms; Chapter XIX Defenses Against Symptoms, and Secondary Gains; Chapter XX Character Disorders; Part 2e E. Combinations of Traumatic Neuroses and Psychoneuroses; Chapter XXI Combinations of Traumatic Neuroses and Psychoneuroses; Part 2f F. Course and Therapy of Neuroses; Chapter XXII The Clinical Course of Neuroses; Chapter XXIII Therapy and Prophylaxis of Neuroses; Chapter XXIV Epilogue to the 50th Anniversary Edition, Leo Rangell;

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Otto Fenichel, Leo Rangell