The ways of the will : selected essays / Leslie H. Farber ; introduction by Robert Boyers ; afterword by Anne Farber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farber, Leslie H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Will.

Physical Description:

xxv, 315 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

Expanded edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, [2000]

Summary:

The psychologist Leslie Farber, who died in 1981, has been revered as one of the most astute observers of the human condition and a writer of penetrating wisdom. His essays, on topics as diverse as the pornographic anguish of jealousy and the despair of psychotherapy, were collected in 1966 (The Ways of the Will) and 1976 (Lying, Despair, Jealousy, Envy, Sex, Suicide, Drugs, and the Good Life) and have been out of print for nearly twenty years. Based partly on his experiences as a therapist, but more importantly on his special insight, Dr. Farber's observations provide us with a unique glimpse into ourselves that is frequently startling, but in the end always consoling.

Contents:

Lying on the couch

Schizophrenia and the mad psychotherapist

Harry Stack Sullivan and the American dream

Thinking about will

Will and anxiety

Will and willfulness in hysteria

Despair and the life of suicide

He said, she said

On jealousy

I'm sorry, dear

Faces of envy

O death, where is thy sting-a-ling-a-ling?

Family reunion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0465023584

OCLC:

44632980