Repetition and Trauma: Toward A Teleonomic Theory of Psychoanalysis

The late Max Stern's final work, this is a highly original, scholarly attempt to integrate psychoanalysis with biology. Via the introduction of a "teleonomic principle," Stern posits a novel theory of biotrauma that calls into question certain tenets of

Author: Max M. Stern,Liselotte Bendix Stern
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 08/01/1988
Pages: 188
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.42h x 6.60w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780881630732

About the Author
Max M. Stern (1895-1982) received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Heidelberg and Frankfurt am Main and his psychoanalytic training at the Institute of the Palestine Psychoanalytic Association, from which he graduated in 1938. Following his emigration to the United States in 1947, he practiced psychoanalysis in New York and served as a training analyst and faculty member at both the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and the Division of Psychoanalytic Education at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center. A past president of the Psychoanalytic Association of New York, Dr. Stern was the author of 18 papers on early psychobiological development and the integration of psychoanalysis with biology.