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The Psychoanalytic Theories of Development: An Integration

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easy to read and very well-organized text. this book is comprehensive in its coverage of theory as related to all levels of development--affect, cognition, object relations, and much, much more. it includes numerous perspectives from the field. it was especially helpful to my understanding as a graduate student new to psychoanalytic theory and methodology. explanations are not convoluted and are so well done that i have been able to use many of them in educating patients about family of origin issues as related to current functioning. highly recommended reading!

This book was well written and clear enough to be presented (in sections) as homework reading for first and second year graduate students of Clinical Psychology for classes on psychodynamic theory and psychodynamic approaches to child therapy to assist in the teaching of psychdynamic theory.

Psychoanalytic Theoris of Development delved in remarkably to the core of psychology today. Mrs. Phyllis Tyson gives examined, thoughtful theories on how humans react to different pressures in our everyday society. It's a wonderfully enlightining book!

I don't like the theories in this book, and I don't like the class for which I have to read them. SO I guess that makes me a little biased. Also, I've only read part of the first chapter.

Nonetheless, I can objectively say the authors are bombastic ego-strokers who probably met in a small, dank office in the basement of a ivy league college library, bonded over the insufferable stupidity of most other Americans, got married and then produced this book as a castigation to every feeble-minded psychology student who didn't take latin. Note: the sentence you just read is about a quarter the length of those you'll find in this book. I'd rather try to read the Sound and The Fury in braille than start the second chapter of Psychoanalytic Theories of Development.

There. Now I feel better.