Research Catalog

Title

Searchlights on delinquency ; new psychoanalytic studies dedicated to Professor August Aichhorn on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, July 27, 1948 / Managing editor, K.R. Eissler: chairman of the editorial board: Paul Federn.

Publication

New York : International Universities Press, [1949]

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Details

Additional Authors

Eissler, K. R. (Kurt Robert), 1908-1999,

Description

xiii, 456 pages : portrait; 24 cm

Subjects

• Aichhorn, August, 1878-1949
• Crime
• Child Guidance
• Psychoanalysis
• Deliquencia (Sociologia)
• Psychologie criminelle

Bibliography (note)

• Includes "References." "Bibliography of August Aichhorn's writings": p. 455-456.

Contents

• Preface / E. Jones -- Dedication / P. Federn -- A biographical outline / K.R.E. -- Some problems of delinquency / K.R. Eissler -- Psychoanalytic prevention versus therapeutic psychoanalysis / P. Federn & H. Meng -- Therapy and ethics in August Aichhorn's treatment of wayward youth / O. Pfister -- Sublimation and gratification in the latency period of girls / L. Bender & J.B. Cramer -- The eternal dilettante. A contribution to female sexuality / K.F. Levy -- Les "enfants terribles" / M.S. Mahler -- Incendiarism / E. Simmel -- Delinquent mechanisms in a four-year-old girl / E. Sterba -- Some impressions from clinical experience with delinquents / S.A. Szurek -- The use of the psychoanalytic principle in child guidance work / J.M. Dorsey -- Deceiving the deceiver / W. Hoffer -- Difficulties encountered in the psychiatric treatment of chronic juvenile delinquents / H.S. Lippman --
• Psychotherapy in a resident children's group / C.P. Oberndorf -- The analytic treatment of major criminals: therapeutic results and technical problems / M. Schmideberg -- Certain types and stages of social maladjustment / A. Freud -- Latent delinquency and ego development / K. Friedlander -- Some points in the transformation of a wayward to a neurotic child / M.E. Fries -- Sanctions for superego lacunae of adolescents / A.M. Johnson -- Neurotics, delinquents and ideal-formation / J. Lampl-de Groot -- The ego of the adolescent / F. Wittels -- The child's moral development / M. Woolf -- The objectivity of criminological science / P. Bergman -- Twins- a gang in miniature / D.T. Burlingham -- Scapegoats of society / Ruth S. Eissler -- The primal crime and the unconscious / M. Grotjahn -- The phenomenon of contagion and "shock effect" in group therapy / F. Redl -- On social responsibility / G. Zilboorg --
• Observations on the psychological effect of imprisonment on female political prisoners / E. Jacobson -- Non-violence and self-government in training schools and penitentiaries / P. Reiwald -- Mental hygiene of convicts in prisons / H. Zulliger -- Some services for London's difficult boys / D. Archibald -- Delinquency in India / G. Bose -- Outline of the investigation and treatment of delinquency in Great Britain: 1912-1948 / E. Glover -- Some remarks on the influence of Aichhorn's work on child protection in Holland / N.H.C. Tibout.

LCCN

49007622

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries