The triumph of the therapeutic : uses of faith after Freud
1973, First Edition. Harmondsworth : Penguin. Very good paperback copy; edges faintly dust-toned, with text gently tanned as by age. Minor scuff to rear wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall; internally tight and clean. Notes; Signed and inscribed by the author to Sir Lawrence Gowing. Item #466719
ISBN: 0140600337
Series; Penguin university books. Physical description; xi, 237 pages ; 21 cm. Notes; Originally published: New York : Harper and Row ; London : Chatto and Windus, 1966. Includes index. Contents; Introductory : Toward a theory of culture -- The analytic attitude : Freud's legacy and its inheritors -- The impoverishment of Western culture -- Community and therapy -- In defense of the analytic attitude -- The therapeutic as theologian : Jung's psychology as language of faith -- The therapeutic as martyr : Reich's religion of energy -- The therapeutic as mythmaker : Lawrence's true Christian philosophy -- The triumph of the therapeutic. Subjects; Psychoanalysis. Social psychology. Philosophical anthropology. Psychotherapy. Psychoanalysis and culture. 20th century.
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