Learn to free creativity from the shackles of emotional conflicts This riveting collection of case histories illustrates the dark interplay of neurosis and creativity. Psychotherapy with People in the Arts explores the struggles of writers, painters, actors, and composers to reconcile their overwhelming need to create and the self-doubts, frustrations, and neuroses that block their potential. In addition to ten inspiring tales of healing and self-knowledge, Psychotherapy with People in the Arts provides a solid introduction to the primary issues related to emotional...
Learn to free creativity from the shackles of emotional conflicts This riveting collection of case histories illustrates the dark interplay ...
Learn to free creativity from the shackles of emotional conflicts This riveting collection of case histories illustrates the dark interplay of neurosis and creativity. Psychotherapy with People in the Arts explores the struggles of writers, painters, actors, and composers to reconcile their overwhelming need to create and the self-doubts, frustrations, and neuroses that block their potential. In addition to ten inspiring tales of healing and self-knowledge, Psychotherapy with People in the Arts provides a solid introduction to the primary issues related to emotional...
Learn to free creativity from the shackles of emotional conflicts This riveting collection of case histories illustrates the dark interplay ...
Hank Flugelhorn, a man somewhat taken with hyperbole, has written a book about his adventures in outer space, and he doesn't care if you believe him or not. According to him, three naked girls sidled up to him one day and kidnapped him. They dragged him kicking and giggling to their space ship and whisked him off to their planet. On the way he was forced to donate a sperm sample via a spermatron and then required to satisfy each of the naked ladies, a feat which he accomplished with great finesse. Not that he needed to brag. On their planet he was thrown into the clutches of Xquisitrix, whose...
Hank Flugelhorn, a man somewhat taken with hyperbole, has written a book about his adventures in outer space, and he doesn't care if you believe him o...
Based on the author's research as a psychoanalyst, A Way You'll Never Be tells the story of Robert Allen Jones (Bobby), the son of a white mother and a black father, and his unlikely relationship with a pretty runaway named Jenny. Written as a first-person diary, this hardboiled work provides a poignant glimpse into a serial murderer's mind as it follows him and teenage charmer Jenny on a road trip from Kansas to the Florida Keys. . Jenny falls in love with Bobby and wants to marry him to "make up for what your mom did," but he has other plans. The novel, full of oddball adventures, moves...
Based on the author's research as a psychoanalyst, A Way You'll Never Be tells the story of Robert Allen Jones (Bobby), the son of a white mother and ...
This volume contains the author's philosophical poems, accompanied by his expressionistic drawings. Two categories of poems populate the book. Those in the first section, "Holding On," are all about how the wanting or resenting things brings discontent. Those in the second section, "Letting Go," describe the state of accepting life as it is and living in harmony. The book has been culled from a lifetime of journal writing and doodling.
This volume contains the author's philosophical poems, accompanied by his expressionistic drawings. Two categories of poems populate the book. Those i...
. This is inspiring tale of a man's journey through life. It follows him as he goes through an abusive childhood, fleeting fame as a young playwright, a later descent into madness, redemption by way of psychotherapy with a female therapist, and finally success as a man, psychotherapist and writer.
. This is inspiring tale of a man's journey through life. It follows him as he goes through an abusive childhood, fleeting fame as a young playwright,...
Virgil, an aspiring New York artist and desperate nerd, meets Lila, a beautiful visitor from Eastern Europe with a mysterious flaw. He bumbles his way to her heart, but is handicapped by his phobia of beautiful women, which causes him to have a "kissing reflex," a malady that compels him to hastily kiss and have sex with a beautiful woman in order to allay his neurotic fears of rejection. Despite his handicap he succeeds in getting Lila to bed, whereupon she turns out not to be as beautiful as he thought. His despair at seeing her "birth defect" mortifies him, which in turn offends Lila and...
Virgil, an aspiring New York artist and desperate nerd, meets Lila, a beautiful visitor from Eastern Europe with a mysterious flaw. He bumbles his way...
In this collection of papers by a neo-classical psychoanalyst, he points the way back to a more centrist view. He argues with modern writings that have repealed Freud's theories about women, homosexuality, drive theory and cultural psychology without offering plausible substitutes. He posits a neutral thesis that is an attempt to unify a psychoanalysis that has fragmented into numerous schools since Freud's death.
In this collection of papers by a neo-classical psychoanalyst, he points the way back to a more centrist view. He argues with modern writings that hav...
