Quinodoz Jean-Michel The Taming of Solitude

<P><EM>Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award!</EM></P><P>Psychoanalysts would argue that at the root of anxiety about loneliness, which commonly brings people into analysis, lies anxiety about separation, unresolved since childhood.</P><P>When re-experienced in analysis, the painful awareness of solitude - the sense of being a separate person - can become a rich source of personal creativity. In <EM>The Taming of Solitude</EM>, Jean-Michel Quinodoz brings together the views of Freud, Klein, Hanna Segal, W.R.D. Fairbairn, D.W. Winnicott, Anna Freud, Margaret Mahler, Heinz Kohut, John Bowlby and others, presenting a comprehensive approach to the experience of loneliness, a universal phenomenon which can be observed in everyday life and in any therapeutic situation.</P><P>Written with clarity and insight, <EM>The Taming of Solitude </EM>will be of great interest to all psychoanalysts and therapists.</P>