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Authors: Jeffrey B. Rubin
ISBN-13: 9780791462157, ISBN-10: 0791462153
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date Published: September 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Jeffrey B. Rubin

Book Synopsis

Psychoanalysts have traditionally been expert at uncovering what afflicts and damages people, argues Jeffrey B. Rubin, but by focusing on narcissism and perversions, depression and sadism, psychoanalysis has all too often disregarded what nourishes and sustains us. In The Good Life, he demonstrates how psychoanalysis can make a profound contribution to the welllived life by drawing on a neglected but potent aspect of psychoanalysisits capacity to illuminate a psychology of health as well as illness. Rubin shows that, at its best, psychoanalysis can highlight both the ingredients of love, ethics, creativity, and spirituality, as well as the obstacles to experiencing them. Exploring the good life from this dual perspective provides an indispensable resource for helping us live with greater meaning and vitality.

Author Biography: Jeffrey B. Rubin is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and Bedford Hills and is also Faculty and Training Supervisor at Harlem Family Institute. He is the author of the groundbreaking and critically acclaimed Psychotherapy and Buddhism: Toward an Integration and A Psychoanalysis for Our Time: Exploring the Blindness of the Seeing I.

Table of Contents

1Psychoanalysis and creative living9
2Values and ethics in psychoanalysis25
3Psychoanalysis at play in the garden of love45
4There's more than meets the I : psychoanalytic reflections on spirituality61
5Psychoanalysis and the good life87

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