Inner Torment: Living Between Conflict and Fragmentation

by Salman Akhtar

Can hope be pathological? What is love? How are envy and arrogance related to hatred? What is the optimal distance between the self and others? Why are some individuals excessively vulnerable to nostalgia? What are the distinctions between a need and a wish? Integrating diverse psychoanalytic traditions with his own theoretical and, clinical insights, Salman Akhtar provides answers to these and other important questions in this realm. He weaves the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765701596
• ISBN13: 9780765701596
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"