Louis S. Berger

Gebundenes Buch

Psychoanalytic Theory and Clinical Relevance

What Makes a Theory Consequential for Practice?

Beschreibung

Berger grapples with the nature of "consequential" theorizing, i.e., theorizing that is relevant to what transpires in clinical practice By examining psychoanalysis as a genre of "state process formalism" -- the standard format of scientific theory -- he

Autor

Louis S. Berger's rich professional career spans the fields of electrical engineering (B.S.), music (M.M.), physics (M.S.), and clinical psychology (Ph.D.). A former cellist with the Boston Symphony, he has served as Senior Research Scientist with the Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, and a teacher of statistics and a number of other mathematical and nonmathematical subjects. Following graduate training in clinical psychology in the early 1970s and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences in 1974, he established a clinical practice in Houston. On relocating to Kentucky, he became Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville School of Medicine. His journal publications encompass a range of disciplines and topics: psychoanalytic theory, forensic psychology, psychoacoustics, general semantics, applied physics, computerized test construction, cross-disciplinary communication, and the statistical theory of communication. He is the author of Introductory Statistics: A New Approach for the Behavioral Sciences (1981).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 1985
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780881630428
• ISBN-10: 088163042X
• Artikelnr.: 37182414