The Mind in Disorder Psychoanalytic Models of Pathology By: John E. Gedo Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9781138869523, 113886952X eText ISBN: 9781134878574, 1134878575 Edition: 1st Pages: 264 Copyright year: 1988 Format: EPUB Available from $ 19.98 USD SKU 9781134878574R90 Anchoring his schema in the belief that nonorganic disorders are disturbances in adaptation explicable within a depth-psychological framework, Gedo posits two broad categories of functional disorder: apraxias that represent any failure to learn adaptively essential skills, and disorders of what her terms obligatory repetition. Within both categories of disorder, Gedo avers, the vicissitudes of mental functioning are understandable in terms of regression to relatively archaic modes of function and the reversal of regression and return to expectable modes of adult function. It follwos from Gedo's understanding of how and why the mind becom Download ebook: https://ouo.io/b2bWgXe
