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The Importance of Disappointment Book

Ian Craib brings together the insights of both psychotherapy and sociology to argue that society seems to present new possibilities of living that are in fact illusions. Through the examination of modern theories of death and mourning, contemporary ideas of masculinity, and notions of the self espoused in modern therapies, Craig discusses how we have come to believe that we have rights to aspects of life such as happiness and a fulfilling relationship, and how psychoanalysis also becomes caught up in these illusions, offering ideals which are unrealizable, yet paradoxically reinforcing the conditions which lead people to seek help in the first place.Read More

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  • 041509383X
  • 9780415093835
  • Ian Craib
  • 22 September 1994
  • Routledge
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 216
  • 1
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