{"product_id":"the-mirror-and-the-hammer-9781412901789","title":"The Mirror and the Hammer","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e`It is surely worth reading, not only by the author's fellow psychiatrists, but also by psychologists in general' - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eContemporary Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e`I found this book a joy to read. Each chapter sets out the orthodoxy in question, then proceeds to explain lucidly the author's difficulties with this orthodoxy and to suggest an alternative way of looking at the issues' - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelf and Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePsychotherapy's influence seems all pervasive today. But to what end? Is helping people really therapy's main mission? This provocative book explores the alternatives to psychotherapeutic orthodoxies on such vital issues as sexuality; the self; the unconscious; creativity; and the dilemma of evil.  Erensto Spinelli challenges psychotherapy, asking if it has retreated from its early promise of being a pivotal agent in our attempts to discover what it means to be human, in exchange for its current role as a pacifier of personal and social unease.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e`It is surely worth reading, not only by the author′s fellow psychiatrists, but also by psychologists in general′ - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eContemporary Psychology \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e`\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eI found this book a joy to read. Each chapter sets out the orthodoxy in question, then proceeds to explain lucidly the author′s difficulties with this orthodoxy and to suggest an alternative way of looking at the issues′ - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelf and Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCelebrating Mediocrity    What Has Happened to Psychotherapy? To Disclose or Not to Disclose - That is the Question I am Not a Noun    The Vagaries of the Self Do We Really Need the Unconscious? Reconfiguring Human Sexuality Conflicting Desires    Childhood and Sexuality Psychotherapy and the Challenge of Evil Creation and Being    A Challenge to Psychoanalytic Theories of Artistic Creativity Beyond the Great Beyond The Mirror and the Hammer    Some Hesistant Steps Towards a More Humane Psychotherapy","brand":"SAGE Publications Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019813519703,"sku":"9781412901789","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781412901789.jpg?v=1750781341","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-mirror-and-the-hammer-9781412901789","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}