Wrestling with Destiny: The promise of psychoanalysis

by Lucy Holmes Orens and Lucy Holmes

Book Overview

Can psychoanalysis help people control their destinies?

Using empirical evidence from neuroscience, Lucy Holmes makes a powerful argument that it can. This book considers the various ways in which destiny is linked to the repetition compulsion, and how free association in psychoanalysis can literally change the mind in ways that can help people reshape and take control of the future. Freud's psychoanalysis is revealed here to be startlingly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415813417
• ISBN13: 9780415813419
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"