Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis

Fenichel, O. (1945), 77tr Psychoanalytical Theory of Neurosis, New York Norton. 

We must cut short our review of the psychoanalytic aspects of the myth of masturbation and will conclude by citing the views o(Ouo (Femchel, whose book. The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis, is cofisidered the definitive modern text on psychoanalysis. Fenichel is considerably less opposed to masturbation than Freud had been. But he, too, tries to present moral criteria of what are desirable and undesirable attitudes toward masturbation as if they were scientific psychoanalytic criteria of mentally healthy behavior. Masturbation, Fenichel writes, .. . is normal in childhood and under present cultural conditions is also normal in adolescence, and even in adulthood as a substitute when no sexual object is available.. . . ... 

O Fenichel. The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis. New York Norton, 1999. DH Shapiro, J Astin. Control Therapy. New York John Wiley and Sons, 1998. JH Norcross, MR Goldfried. Handbook of Psychotherapy Integration. New York Basic Books, 1992. 

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