Summary
Bad feelings are ubiquitous to human experience. Everyone deals with grief, envy, disappointment, dejection, humiliation, mortification, and anxiety. However, when we consciously push troubling feelings aside and then avoid them, we should be under no illusions that such repression empowers us to lead untroubled lives. The price that we pay, simply, is feeling less alive.Our attempts to avoid feeling pain manifest themselves in feelings of disconnection and numbness. To make matters wors…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590512203 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590512200 |
| Author: | Roy Schafer |
| Publisher: | Other Press LLC |
| Imprint: | Other Press LLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 184 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 17 April 2006 |
| Weight: | 252g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 10mm |
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About The Author
Roy Schafer
Roy Schafer, Ph.D.Roy Schafer, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in New York City. He has written nearly a dozen books on psychoanalysis, among them the noteworthy Aspects of Internalization, A New Language for Psychoanalysis, and Language and Insight- The Sigmund Freud Lectures at University College, London. Dr. Schafer has taught and lectured all over the U.S. and abroad. He lives in New York.
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