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Schopenhauer's Porcupines - by Deborah Anna Luepnitz (Paperback)

Schopenhauer's Porcupines - by  Deborah Anna Luepnitz (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Deborah Anna Luepnitz has written a masterpiece about the living, breathing relationship of psychotherapist and client."--Linda Austin, M.D., author of What's Holding You Back<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The classic compilation of psychological case studies from a master clinician and lyrical writer</b></br></br> Each generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers likeDeborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy and wit shine in her fine, luminous prose. In <i>Schopenhauer's Porcupines</i>, she recounts five true stories from her practice, stories of patients who range from the super-rich to the destitute, who grapple with panic attacks, psychosomatic illness, marital despair, and sexual recklessness. Intimate, original, and triumphantly funny, <i>Schopenhauer's Porcupines</i> goes further than any other book in illuminating how talking helps.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Deborah Luepnitz brings a rare grace, wisdom, and literary imagination to these moving stories of patients and therapists talking their way toward the illumination of themselves and each other.--<b>Lynne Sharon Schwartz</b>, <i><b>author of Disturbances in the Field</b></i><br><br>Drawing heavily on the work of Lacan, Winnicott, and Klein, Luepintz educates us as well, allowing us to look over her shoulder and see miracles happen.--<i><b>Boston Globe</b></i><br><br>I could not put <i>Schopenhauer's Porcupines</i> down. These stories illustrate how a master clinician uses complex and sophisticated theory with just the right light touch, so that it seems transparent to her patients and her readers.--<b>Lewis Aron, PhD, Director, New York University</b><br><br>Schopenhauer's Porcupines is the most affirming, original, and literate psychoanalytic work of the past thirty years.--<i><b>Psychoanalytic Psychology</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Deborah Anna Luepnitz, Ph.D.</b>, is on the Clinical Faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She is the author of <i>Child Custody</i> and <i>The Family Interpreted</i>, and is a contributing author to the Cambridge Companion to Lacan. She maintains a private practice in Philadelphia.

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