Birth injury and its significance for psychoanalysis. Rank O.

In its fundamental work, the classic of psychoanalysis analyzes in detail the inevitable and deepest traumatic experience in the life of every person - birth injury. In it, he sees the most important element of mental development, as well as the root of all fears and neurosis, and considers the desire to return to the intrauterine state as a fundamental force that controls the mental life of the individual. On the base, he formulates the main goal of psychotherapy - to help the patient survive this injury and cope with the alarm associated with the separation from the mother.

The book is addressed to everyone who is interested in the problems of deep psychology and psychoanalysis.