{"product_id":"a-different-path-an-emotional-autobiography-9781912573578","title":"A Different Path: An Emotional Autobiography","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn engaging book that charts the turbulent journey from childhood to adulthood of a well-known psychoanalyst.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"Our human task is to be lived by Life. Life as a transcendent principle. It seems to me that a reliable test of whether we have lived worthwhile lives is this: is the world a better place for my having lived in it?\"\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eNeville Symington has written a dozen books about psychoanalysis but this one is different from all the others. It is an emotional autobiography that starts with his own birth and gives a character sketch of his mother and father and his upbringing in Portugal, with a two year period in Canada, and takes the reader through to the age of 45 by which time he was a qualified psychoanalyst, married with two sons and, at the time, living in London.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThis sounds like the story of a peaceful journey from childhood through to his chosen career in adulthood. However, the author takes the reader through the period of his earlier career in the Church in a parish in the East End of London and the turbulent period of change that led him to take leave of this first career, seek psychoanalysis and finally to become a psychoanalyst himself.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThis is an engaging book that charts the emotional storms and the ups and downs that beset the life's journey of a well-known psychoanalyst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR ix\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e CHAPTER ONE\u003cbr\u003e Father 1\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER TWO\u003cbr\u003e Mother 49\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER THREE\u003cbr\u003e School and after school 69\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER FOUR\u003cbr\u003e Nightmare in Lisbon 101\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER FIVE\u003cbr\u003e The seminary 119\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER SIX\u003cbr\u003e The birth of subjectivity 149\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER SEVEN\u003cbr\u003e In exile 201\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCHAPTER EIGHT\u003cbr\u003e Disaster and recovery 261\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aeon Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53191484866903,"sku":"9781912573578","price":33.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-different-path-an-emotional-autobiography-9781912573578","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}