The Importance of Disappointment

The Importance of Disappointment

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This sane and insightful discussion explores the nature of identity in late modern societies to criticize the way in which psychotherapy has become an ideology of late modernity and to emphasize the importance of `negative' messages in psychoanalytic theory.

Author/Editor Biography

Ian Craib is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex and a psychoanalytic group psychotherapist.