A stunning exploration of the relation between desire and psychopathology, "The Death of Desire" is a unique synthesis of the work of Laing, Freud, Nietzsche, and Heidegger that renders their often difficult concepts brilliantly accessible to and usable by psychotherapists of all persuasions. In bridging a critical gap between phenomenology and psychoanalysis, M. Guy Thompson, one of the leading existential psychoanalysts of our time, firmly re-situates the unconscious what Freud called "the lost continent of repressed desires" in phenomenology. In so doing, he provides us with the...

A stunning exploration of the relation between desire and psychopathology, "The Death of Desire" is a unique synthesis of the work of Laing, Freud, Nietzsche, and Heidegger that renders their often difficult concepts brilliantly accessible to and usable by psychotherapists of all persuasions. In bridging a critical gap between phenomenology and psychoanalysis, M. Guy Thompson, one of the leading existential psychoanalysts of our time, firmly re-situates the unconscious what Freud called "the lost continent of repressed desires" in phenomenology. In so doing, he provides us with the...