Common wisdom has it that love is fragile, but leading psychoanalyst Stephen A. Mitchell argues that romance doesn't actually diminish in long-term relationships it becomes increasingly dangerous. What we regard as the transience of love is really risk management. Mitchell shows that love can endure, if only we become aware of our self-destructive efforts to protect ourselves from its risks. "Those who read this book will love more wisely because of it." Andrew Solomon, author of "The Noonday Demon" " A] work on romance that is rich and multi-layered." "Publishers Weekly" "Cheerful, open, and...
Common wisdom has it that love is fragile, but leading psychoanalyst Stephen A. Mitchell argues that romance doesn't actually diminish in long-term re...
In late summer of the year 2000, Canadian doctor Margaret Kerr embarks on a journey of discovery in Scotland's Border Country. Three days into the walking tour, she becomes separated from her fellow travelers. Threatened by a fast-moving thunderstorm, she seeks aid at a farmhouse, fenced and hidden in a grove of trees. The first touch to the wrought-iron gate gives her the sense that inside an incredible mystery waits....
In late summer of the year 2000, Canadian doctor Margaret Kerr embarks on a journey of discovery in Scotland's Border Country. Three days into the wal...
Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. But psychoanalytic thinking has undergone an enormous expansion and transformation over the past fifty years. With Freud and Beyond, Stephen A. Mitchell and Margaret J. Black make contemporary psychoanalytic thinking--the body of work that has been done since Freud--available for the first time. Richly illustrated with case examples, this lively, jargon-free introduction makes modern psychoanalytic thought accessible at...
Freud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensualit...