Symbols in Structure and Function- Volume 1

About the Book

+This is the first unit of three devoted to an explication of the structure and function of symbols. The following topics are covered. Ch-1 SIMPLE SYMBOLS Ch-2 PSYCHOANALYTIC SYMBOLS Ch-3 POETIC SYMBOLS Ch-4 TRANSCENDENT SYMBOLS CH-5 - THE ONTOGENESIS OF THE SYMBOLIZING FUNCTION CH-6 – THE ONTOGENESIS OF SYMBOLS FROM BIRTH TO SIX YEARS OF AGE CH-7 - THE ONTOGENESIS OF SYMBOLS FROM THE LATENCY AGE TO THE ADULT YEARS CH-8 - THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF SYMBOLS CH-9 - DREAM SYMBOL CHARACTERISTICS IN SPECIFIC SLEEP STAGES CH-10 - CONSCIOUSNESS AND AFFECT MANAGEMENT THROUGH PSYCHOANALYTIC SYMBOL FORMATION CH-11 - SYMBOLS AND THE SENSE OF REALITY

About the Author

Charles Sarnoff M.D. is the author of “Latency”, three other texts and over 60 published papers. He is a psychiatrist in private practice, formerly Clinical Associate Professor of psychiatry at NYU College of Medicine and is now a Lecturer in child development at the Columbia University P&S School of Medicine Psychoanalytic Institute. He is board certified in Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatry, and is a graduate child and adult psychoanalyst. He served as an aviation psychiatrist and electoencephalographer at the US Air Force School of Aviation Medicine.