Ahmed Fayek

Gebundenes Buch

Consciousness and the Aconscious in Psychoanalytic Theory

Beschreibung

In this book, Fayek summarizes current arguments and debates stemming from neurological and phenomenological perspectives. He presents the notion that consciousness needs to be considered a human phenomenon and not simply a manifestation of brain activity, which is an occurrence shared by all organisms.

Autor

Ahmed Fayek was an associate professor of Clinical Psychology in Cairo, Egypt, before immigrating to Canada. His interest in psychoanalysis was a major factor in his immigration to Canada in 1971. He had an accredited training in the Montreal Institute of Psychoanalysis and became a training analyst in 1980. He was Director of Psychology at the Royal Ottawa Hospital, before retiring in 1989. In the last fifteen years before fully retiring, he did some consulting and supervising work in the Middle East and dedicated the rest of the time to writing and publishing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9781442242500
• ISBN-10: 1442242507
• Artikelnr.: 41197680