Happiness: origins, forms, and technical relevance.
By critically reviewing Freud's views on happiness, and also those of Helene Deutsch, Bertram Lewin, Melanie Klein, and Heinz Kohut, the author evolves a complex and multilayered perspective on the phenomenon. He categorizes happiness into four related and occasionally overlapping varieties: pleasure-based happiness (elation), assertion-based happiness (joy), merger-based happiness (ecstasy), and fulfillment-based happiness (contentment). After entering some caveats and drawing from his clinical experience, the author then demonstrates the relevance of these ideas to the conduct of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
Akhtar
Salman
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Jefferson Medical College, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, USA.
D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005619:Freudian Theory / Q000266:history; D006240:Happiness; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D057181:Pleasure; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011613:Psychotherapy