Schopenhauer's Porcupines - Intimacy and Its Dilemmas - Five Stories of Psychotherapy

Informationen zum Autor Deborah Anna Luepnitz, Ph.D., is on the Clinical Faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She is the author of Child Custody and The Family Interpreted, and is a contributing author to the Cambridge Companion to Lacan. She maintains a private practice in Philadelphia. Klappentext "Deborah Anna Luepnitz has written a masterpiece about the living! breathing relationship of psychotherapist and client."--Linda Austin! M.D.! author of What's Holding You Back Zusammenfassung The classic compilation of psychological case studies from a master clinician and lyrical writer Each generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers likeDeborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy and wit shine in her fine, luminous prose. In Schopenhauer's Porcupines , she recounts five true stories from her practice, stories of patients who range from the super-rich to the destitute, who grapple with panic attacks, psychosomatic illness, marital despair, and sexual recklessness. Intimate, original, and triumphantly funny, Schopenhauer's Porcupines goes further than any other book in illuminating "how talking helps."

Product details

• Authors: Deborah Luepnitz, Deborah A. Luepnitz, Deborah Anna Luepnitz
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.02.2003
• EAN: 9780465042876
• ISBN: 978-0-465-04287-6
• Dimensions: 125 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Love & Romance, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis