Everything Is Permitted, Restrictions Still Apply: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Social Dislocation, Narcissism, and Post Truth

ISBN-13: 9781782206125 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 192 str.

Ian Thurston

Opis

The book suggests, following the work of the late Christopher Lasch, that there are powerful narcissistic trends in contemporary life mitigating against the capacity to acknowledge and face these changes, in other words against the capacity to face reality and to mourn.

O autorze

Ian Thurston is a registered psychoanalytic psychotherapist, currently working as a Principal Adult Psychotherapist at the Department of Psychotherapy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. He has worked extensively in public sector mental health care, initially as a psychiatric nurse, and later as clinical manager of an Acute Day Hospital in East London.