(Paperback)

Demonstrates how psychoanalytic understanding can reduce the painfulness of negative feelings and increase our tolerance for emotional pain. This work enables freedom from frightening fantasies, decrease reliance on passive and masochistic ways of being, increase our ability to take pleasure in the body and more.

(Paperback)

"Here is the long-awaited new book by the influential, always provocative psychoanalyst, Roy Schafer. It focuses on a vacuum that has developed between psychoanalysis and critical thinkers in the socia"