The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Spiritual Life of Children draws on thirty years of his own writings about the field of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, in a revised edition containing much new material.
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About the Author:
Robert Coles is a professor of psychiatry and medical humanities at Harvard University.
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This welcome, expanded edition of an essay collection first published in 1975 includes 16 previously uncollected pieces and is approximately 40% new material. Coles, Pulitzer Prize-winning psychiatrist and Harvard professor, is dismayed at the overreliance on psychoactive drugs in today's psychiatric profession. Among the notable new selections are a stirring account of Coles's work with poor black children in the South during the early civil rights era; a critique of reductionist Freudian and Marxist interpretations of religious faith; a case history of Connie, a rebellious, unruly, yet devoutly Catholic eight-year-old girl; and appreciations of the fictions of Raymond Carver and William Styron. Coles's assessments of Anna Freud's pioneering work with disturbed children, of Erik Erikson's developmental psychology of the life cycle, and of R.D. Laing and William James reflect his grasp of psychotherapy as an elusive mix of science and art. Whether he is discussing the pervasive violence and narcissism in American society or the deep religiosity in Van Gogh's paintings, his humanism and compassionate insight shine through.
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- PublisherLittle Brown & Co
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0316151645
- ISBN 13 9780316151641
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages420
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