Book, Structure of psychoanalytic theory[LS]

The Structure of Psychoanalytic Theory', by David Rapaport, is, in the vast bibliography on the subject, one of the most rigorous attempts to elaborate a systematic exposition of Freudian and neo-Freudian theories and present an objective and scientific picture of what Psychoanalysis is. His main point of examination lies in the so-called metapsychology, in whose context the author seeks to clearly establish the distinction between clinical or special theory and general or psychological psychoanalytic theory. Altogether, it is an analysis of the greatest use for psychologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts and those interested in Psychology studies, providing them with a globalizing and orderly point of view for the complex, and sometimes obscure, knowledge that Freudian psychology comes from. accumulating in its extraordinary development.