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Author: Brent Willock (Toronto Institute and Society for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Canada) ,
Rebecca Coleman Curtis (Adelphi University, USA.) ,
Lori C. Bohm (The William Alanson White Institute, New York, USA)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.385kg
ISBN: 9781138562516
ISBN 10: 1138562513
Pages: 266
Publication Date: 12 December 2017
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The antithesis between reason and passion is as old as human thought. Reason tends to benign but oddly bloodless results: passion to intense but often-disastrous outcomes. This agonistic contrast necessarily pervades psychoanalytic thinking and, although implicit in the earliest psychoanalytic terminology-drive, ego, super-ego, death instinct- seems to have become vitiated in our current expansions of theory and practice. This wide-reaching and magisterial book redresses this issue. Passion, in all its clinical ramifications, is explored by a very eclectic and sophisticated spectrum of therapists. It should be of great interest and value to anyone, in or out of the field, for its sophisticated and enlightening exploration of what is ultimately at the root of the human dilemma. -Edgar A. Levenson, M.D, Fellow Emeritus, Training, Supervisory Analyst and Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute; Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology, NYU Graduate Studies Division.
The antithesis between reason and passion is as old as human thought. Reason tends to benign but oddly bloodless results: passion to intense but often-disastrous outcomes. This agonistic contrast necessarily pervades psychoanalytic thinking and, although implicit in the earliest psychoanalytic terminology-drive, ego, super-ego, death instinct- seems to have become vitiated in our current expansions of theory and practice. This wide-reaching and magisterial book redresses this issue. Passion, in all its clinical ramifications, is explored by a very eclectic and sophisticated spectrum of therapists. It should be of great interest and value to anyone, in or out of the field, for its sophisticated and enlightening exploration of what is ultimately at the root of the human dilemma. -Edgar A. Levenson, M.D, Fellow Emeritus, Training, Supervisory Analyst and Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute; Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology, NYU Graduate Studies Division. The antithesis between reason and passion is as old as human thought. Reason tends to benign but oddly bloodless results: passion to intense but often-disastrous outcomes. This agonistic contrast necessarily pervades psychoanalytic thinking and, although implicit in the earliest psychoanalytic terminology-drive, ego, super-ego, death instinct- seems to have become vitiated in our current expansions of theory and practice. This wide-reaching and magisterial book redresses this issue. Passion, in all its clinical ramifications, is explored by a very eclectic and sophisticated spectrum of therapists. It should be of great interest and value to anyone, in or out of the field, for its sophisticated and enlightening exploration of what is ultimately at the root of the human dilemma. -Edgar A. Levenson, M.D, Fellow Emeritus, Training, Supervisory Analyst and Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute; Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology, NYU Graduate Studies Division.
Author Information
Brent Willock is Founding President of the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Board Member of the Canadian Institute for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and on the faculty of the Institute for the Advancement of Self Psychology. Rebecca Coleman Curtis is Professor of Psychology at Adelphi University, Faculty and Supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute, and Supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. Lori C. Bohm is Supervising Analyst, Faculty, and former Director at the Center for Applied Psychoanalysis and Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Programs at the William Alanson White Institute. She is Psychotherapy Supervisor in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at the City University of New York.
