1st Edition

Mental Conflicts And Misconduct

By Healy, William Copyright 1917
    344 Pages
    by Routledge

    344 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1999. This is Volume IX of nineteen in the Abnormal and Clinical Psychology series. Written in 1928 this is a study of conduct and the causing of misconduct. The authors seek to establish that an important field is opened before us, especially interesting because of the revelation (a) of potent subconscious mental mechanisms working according to definite laws of mental life, and (b) of types of hidden early experiences which definitely evoke these mental processes that are forerunners of misconduct.

    Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 General Principles; Chapter 3 Applications; Chapter 4 Methods; Chapter 5 Conflicts Accompanied by Obsessive Imagery; Chapter 6 Conflicts Causing Impelling Ideas; Chapter 7 Criminal Careers Developed From Conflicts; Chapter 8 Cases Readily Analyzed; Chapter 9 Difficult Cases; Chapter 10 Conflict Arising From Sex Experiences; Chapter 11 Conflicts Arising from Secret Sex Knowledge; Chapter 12 Conflicts Concerning Parentage or Other Matters; Chapter 13 Conflicts in Abnormal Mental Types; Chapter 14 Conflicts Resulting in Stealing; Chapter 15 Conflicts Resulting in Running Away; Chapter 16 Conflicts Resulting in other Delinquencies; Chapter 17 Conclusions;

    Biography

    William Healy