Identity Crisis: Modernity, Psychoanalysis and the Self
Book Details
- Publisher : Macmillan
- Published : 1991
- Cover : Paperback
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 1040
- ISBN 13 : 9780333511077
- ISBN 10 : 0333511077
Also by Stephen Frosh
A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory
Price £27.99
Free UK Delivery over £25
There are currently no reviews
Be the first to review
Examines the psychological responses to the spiralling, enticing and disorienting pressures of modernity, after looking at modern and post-modern accounts of contemporary life it goes on to a discussion of narcissism and psychosis, two states of mind that seem to characterise the 'crisis of the self'
About the Author(s)
Stephen Frosh is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, an Academic Associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society, a Founding Member of the Association of Psychosocial Studies, and an Honorary Member of the Institute of Group Analysis. He is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, and at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is the author of over 20 books on psychosocial studies and psychoanalysis, including A Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory; Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic; The Politics of Psychoanalysis; Hate and the Jewish Science: Anti-Semitism, Nazism and Psychoanalysis; Hauntings; Those Who Come After: Postmemory, Acknowledgement and Forgiveness and most recently, Antisemitism and Racism: Ethical Challenges for Psychoanalysis, published by Bloomsbury in 2023. He is co-editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies and the Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Jewish Studies. His most recent book is How to be Real: A Survival Guide in Challenging Times.
Customer Reviews
Our customers have not yet reviewed this title. Be the first add your own review for this title.








