A different path : an emotional autobiography / Neville Symington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Symington, Neville, author.

Series:

Karnac Library

The Karnac Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis--Biography.

Psychoanalysis.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 323 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books, 2016.

Summary:

'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?' Neville 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. This 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. This 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Father 1

Chapter 2 Mother 49

Chapter 3 School and after school 69

Chapter 4 Nightmare in Lisbon 101

Chapter 5 The seminary 119

Chapter 6 The birth of subjectivity 149

Chapter 7 In exile 201

Chapter 8 Disaster and recovery 261.

ISBN:

178220427X

9781782204275

OCLC:

951212605