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Charles Brenner (1914–2008) was an American psychoanalyst who served as President of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & is perhaps best known for his contributions to drive theory, the structure of the mind & conflict theory.
Called 'the intransigent purist of American psychoanalyis', he was 'the author of a forbidding Elementary Textbook of Psychoanalysis &, with Jacob Arlow, of Psychoanalytic Concepts & the Structural Theory, a once controversial, now standard advanced text'. Eric Berne considered that on the question 'What is psychoanalysis? Two of the best books...are An Elementary Textbook of Psychoanalysis, by Charles Brenner, & Freud's Outline of Psychoanalysis'. Brenner himself acknowledged that probably 'my most significant influence was as author of An Elementary Textbook.'
Charles Brenner (1914–2008) was an American psychoanalyst who served as President of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & is perhaps best known for his contributions to drive theory, the structure of the mind & conflict theory.
Called 'the intransigent purist of American psychoanalyis', he was 'the author of a forbidding Elementary Textbook of Psychoanalysis &, with Jacob Arlow, of Psychoanalytic Concepts & the Structural Theory, a once controversial, now standard advanced text'. Eric Berne considered that on the question 'What is psychoanalysis? Two of the best books...are An Elementary Textbook of Psychoanalysis, by Charles Brenner, & Freud's Outline of Psychoanalysis'. Brenner himself acknowledged that probably 'my most significant influence was as author of An Elementary Textbook.'
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