Psychotherapist Andrew Jamieson considers ten key principles of psychoanalysis and illuminates them through psychobiographies of twenty extraordinary personalities, from Picasso to Putin
| "Using short biographical case studies, Jamieson has crafted an impressively accessible introduction to psychotherapy that balances its inherent complexities with familiar, personal touchstones." —Kirkus Reviews In the late 1800s, Sigmund Freud began to develop radical theories about sexuality, dreams, and childhood experiences. Not only were his ideas revolutionary, but they also initiated a new discipline with various—often competing—schools of thought.
In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Jamieson unpacks ten of psychotherapy's most profound principles and illuminates them through the biographies of twenty remarkable people. From Pablo Picasso's chaotic life, which illustrated Freud's concept of the unconscious, to the origins of Nelson Mandela's compassion, which exemplify Carl Jung's notion of individuation; from John Bowlby's attachment theory, as seen through the lives of Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka, to Melanie Klein's views on the relationship between love and hate, as revealed through the experiences of Cary Grant, On the Couch throws new light on the motivations and desires of some of our most memorable personalities.
Other lives examined include Josephine Baker, Nicolaus Copernicus, Charles Darwin, Viktor Frankl, Ernest Hemingway, Bert Hellinger, Emma Jung, Angela Merkel, Marilyn Monroe, Vladimir Putin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and W.B. Yeats.
Jamieson's 2022 Midlife: Humanity's Secret Weapon—also available from Notting Hill Editions—surveys history, science, and literature in its investigation of the Jungian 'midlife crisis' as an essential evolutionary and social rite of passage. Midlife, like On the Couch, explains key concepts of psychoanalysis by way of familiar subjects (and vice versa)—a theoretical study that is both accessible and enthralling.
Also from Notting Hill Editions Brainspotting: Adventures in Neurology
A.J. Lees Mentored by a Madman:
The William Burroughs Experiment
A.J. Lees You and Me:
The Neuroscience of Identity
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