Wisdom of the Psyche - 9781138900868

Name: Wisdom of the Psyche - 9781138900868
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Wisdom of the PsycheBeyond neuroscience\nAuthor(s): Ginette Paris\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138900868, 978-1138900868\nSynopsis\nThe first edition of Wisdom of the Psyche engaged with one of the main dilemmas of contemporary psychology and psychotherapy: how to integrate findings and insights from neuroscience and medicine into an approach to healing founded upon activation of the imagination. In this revised edition, Ginette Paris re-focuses her attention on the modern lack of desire to become adult and updates the book with brand new neuroscientific research.\n\nParis uses cogent and passionate argument, as well as stories from patients, to demonstrate that the human psyche seeks to destroy relationships and lives as well as to sustain them. She makes clear that the way out of those destructive states does not start with an upward, positive, wilful effort of the ego, but with an opening of the imaginati.