Product Description: Anthony Storr's accessible and humane account of the art of psychotherapy has been widely read by practitioners in training and others in the helping professions, as well as many general readers. The second edition includes a thoroughly revised account of the obsessional personality, and a new chapter that draws on the author's recent work on the importance of the processes of healing that take place within the isolated individual...read more

First published in 1972, this fully revised edition was originally published in 1991 and provides a classic study of humanity’s capacity for evil. The human species is capable of the most appalling cruelty. Why is this and where does our capacity for such destructiveness come from? In Human Destructiveness, Anthony Storr explores these important questions. In seeking to shed light on such brutal phenomena as genocide, racial conflict and other large-scale manifestations of violence, he cautions against easy extrapolations from individual behaviour to the behaviour of groups and nations, though he offers illuminating discussions of aggressive personality disorders, sadomasochism and the mechanisms of paranoid delusion. Most provocatively, he locates the propensity for mass outbreaks of cruelty in the imagination: ‘to be able to see fellow human beings as wholly evil requires an imaginative capacity not found in other species.’ Combining wide scholarship, humane intelligence and a graceful style, Human Destructiveness provides an illuminating study of some of the darkest corners of the human psyche.

A landmark study of the nature of solitude examines its crucial role in creativity, mourning, religious experience, and other aspects of human life; discussses enforced solitude; and argues that solitude can foster postive behavior. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: Sigmund Freud revolutionized the way in which we think about oursleves. From its beginnings as a theory of neurosis, Freud developed psychoanalysis into a general psychology which became widely accepted as the predominant mode of discussing personality and interpersonal relationships...read more

Product Description: Una aproximación a la influencia de la música en nuestras vidas. ¿Por qué ejerce la música un efecto tan poderoso en nuestro cuerpo y nuestra mente? En este accesible libros sobre la experiencia musical, Anthony Storr sostiene que, en la actualidad, la música alcanza al mayor número de personas de toda la historia, y nos explica el porqué de dicho fenómeno, cuestionando innumerables tópicos al respecto...read more

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Examines why society becomes so enraptured with certain figures, and surveys a wide variety of leaders both past and present, attempting to explain how to distinguish between false authorities and true

Product Description: This volume presents the essentials of Jung's thought in his own words. To familiarize readers with the ideas for which Jung is best known, the British psychiatrist and writer Anthony Storr has selected extracts from Jung's writings that pinpoint his many original contributions and relate the development of his thought to his biography...read more

Examining why society becomes so enraptured with certain figures, an author surveys a wide variety of leaders both past and present attempting to explain how to distinguish between false authorities and those who are real. 35,000 first printing.

Suggests why music is so affecting, discusses its connection with the mind, and describes the significance of music

Investigates the psychological, biological, and social foundations of cruelty and aggression, and explores the impact of latent and overt paranoia, depression, and emotional repression on contemporary people

Draws on various approaches to psychotherapy to discuss basic assumptions about human nature, the goals of the therapeutic process, and the development of the human personality

A noted psychiatrist probes the relation netween genius and pathology, offering new and startling insights into the genius of numerous famous historical figures

A selection of the psychological writings of C.G. Jung includes examinations of psychological types, the concept of the collective unconscious, and the development of the individual