M. Guy Thompson

The Death of Desire (eBook, ePUB)

An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 this revised and updated second edition to the original published in 1985, M. Guy Thompson takes us inside his soul-searching seven-year apprenticeship with radical psychiatrist R. D. Laing and his cohorts as it unfolded in counterculture London of the 1970s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317653967
• Artikelnr.: 49377027

Autorenporträt

M. Guy Thompson, Ph.D., is a Personal and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and Adjunct Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco. His most recent book, The Legacy of R. D. Laing (2015), is also published by Routledge. Dr. Thompson is the author of numerous books and journal articles on psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and schizophrenia. He lives in Marin County, California.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
The Myth of Mental Illness
That Discreet Object of Desire
Ressentiment: An Existential Paradigm for Symptom Formation
Deciphering "Psychopathology"
What to Make of an Incidence of Incomprehensible Madness (or A Clinical Case Not so Easy to Diagnose)
The Unobjectionable Transference
Love and Madness
On Sanity.