Anthony Storr was an English psychiatrist and author, renowned for his insightful psychoanalytical portraits of historical figures. His work draws deeply from his understanding of human suffering, allowing him to delve into the psyche of individuals with profound empathy. Storr's writing style is both kind and penetrating, offering readers a unique window into the motivations and inner struggles of those he examined. His writings are valued for their psychological acuity and literary merit.
Storr’s The Art of Psychotherapy appeared in 1979 and became an instant classic. After Storr’s death, a third edition was rewritten and revised by Jeremy Holmes, and the fourth edition is a further up-to-date iteration.
Jung's writing is the key to understanding 20th century psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis. This collection of his writings clearly presents him in his own words and in precis.
Aby člověk pochopil, kdo je to guru, a porozuměl mu, musí být připraven zvážit otázku, kde leží hranice mezi racionalitou a šílenstvím, mezi tzv. zdravým rozumem a bláznovstvím. Autor se zabývá tématem iluze a víry i jezuity a Ježíšem. Pojednává o velkých duchovních vůdcích, hnutích, kultech i charitativních organizacích, zamýšlí se nad osobnostmi, jako byl Gurdjieff, Jung, Freud, Steiner a mnoho dalších.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves. From its beginnings as a theory of neurosis, Freud developed psycho-analysis into a general psychology which became widely accepted as the predominant mode of discussing personality and interpersonal relationships.
The author disagrees with the view that only intimate relationships can provide mental and personal satisfaction arguing that solitude has restorative powers.
This title collects the essays of one of England's best-known and most distinguished psychiatrists. Storr weighs and tests Freud's theory that creativity is the result of dissatisfaction by examining the impulses which drove Kafka, Newton and Churchill.
First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1972, this work 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? Anthony Storr explores these important questions. In seeking to shed light on brutal phenomena such as genocide, racial conflict, and other large-scale manifestations of violence, he cautions against easy extrapolations from individual behavior to the behavior 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, this work provides an illuminating study of some of the darkest corners of the human psyche.
