Should You Leave?: A Psychiatrist Explores Intimacy and Autonomy--And the Nature of Advice Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Should You Leave?: A Psychiatrist Explores Intimacy and Autonomy--And the Nature of Advice Book

Uniquely conceived and utterly refreshing, Peter Kramer (Listening to Prozac) breaks the mould of most advice books with Should You Leave? Expect no authoritative voice retreating behind labels or manufactured jargon. Instead, in a series of fictive sessions with imaginary advisees, Kramer illlustrates complex problems; each one lets him give a different style of advice--from Freud's to Ann Lander's. The central question pushes the limits of traditional "silent therapy": can a direct, simple response to any problem of the heart be valuable? Should You Leave? moves fluidly between discussions of psychological theory and imaginative flights, revealing both a wide body of knowledge and compassion. Kramer's questions, framed with sensitivity and irreverence, challenge our cultural fixation on autonomy and assertiveness. Given these, how can intimacy thrive?Read More

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  • 0140272798
  • 9780140272796
  • Peter D. Kramer
  • 1 January 1999
  • Penguin Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 320
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