Our Desire of Unrest: Thinking About Therapy (The United... - Jacobs, Michael

Taylor & Francis

Michael Jacobs takes us on an engrossing intellectual journey as he revisits crucial turning points in his development and explores a number of neglected topics such as fame and fate, the psychology of optimism and pessimism, and the study of the therapist's relationship to the idea of revenge. > Knowledge is never static. It is always open to revolutionary thinking or to evolving development. Similarly an individual\u0092s knowledge is always moving, and indeed if the ability to think about ideas is lost, an important part of the individual is also lost. In this book, a collection of some of the papers and lectures written by Michael Jacobs over a period of thirty or more years, the author shows his own thinking at work, as he challenges himself to look deeper at some important aspects of his discipline \u0096 principally psychodynamic psychotherapy, although always with reference to other forms of discourse such as literature and theology. Here the reader will find the writer beh