Results for: books tagged ‘Psychoanalysis’
Terrors and Experts: Adam Phillips
Why do women write more letters than they post?: Darian Leader
Why do men tend to keep love letters in files along with their other correspondence, whereas women keep them with their clothes? And if a letter is written but not ... More
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The Treatment: Daniel Menaker
Jake Singer, an anxious young English teacher at a prestigious New York prep school, is heading for a life of personal despair and professional mediocrity. Recently abandoned by his girlfriend, ... More
Freud's Footnotes: Darian Leader
There are many footnotes to Freud, but Freud himself is never a mere footnote. What makes him so special? Each of Freud's works should make us ask the question, why ... More
Equals: Adam Phillips
Does psychoanalysis teach us that freedom and equality are impossible for human beings? We would all like to think of ourselves as freedom-loving, egalitarian and democratic. Yet Freud has taught ... More
Promises, Promises: Adam Phillips
Has psychoanalysis failed to keep its promise? What are psychoanalysis and literature good for? And what, if anything, have they got to do with each other? Promises, Promises is a ... More
The Talking Cure: Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton's The Talking Cure deals with the early years of C.G. Jung, and his decision to experiment, using Freud's controversial new method of psychoanalysis, with a young Russian patient, ... More
The Faber Book of Madness: Roy Porter
Madness evades definition, divides opinion and frightens and touches us all. In his classic anthology, the late Roy Porter compiled a brilliant and comprehensive selection of writings - from George ... More
Something to Tell You: Hanif Kureishi
Something to Tell You takes us inside the life and mind of Jamal, a fifty-something psychoanalyst, who finds people from his student days in the 1970s returning to haunt him in unsettling ways. Here's the author explaining more. More
The Wild Garden: Angus Wilson
The Wild Garden is both an autobiographical essay on the creative process and a remarkable personal account of the circumstances surrounding the nervous crisis that impelled Angus Wilson to become ... More