“How praise deprives self-confidence”, “how anger saves from sadness”, “how love torment does not allow us to love” — these are the titles of the chapters of this book, which contains the most precious thing — the life experience of different people, amazing stories, secrets and their unexpected clues.
The British psychoanalyst Stephen Gross does not describe his method of work, he is interested in the private stories of patients. An experience that can be generalized, tried on for oneself: “We all try to drown out our painful emotions at some point in our lives. But by succeeding in our desire to feel nothing, we deprive ourselves of the only way to figure out what torments us and why. To be able to find a way out, a psychoanalyst does not need magic and sorcery, says Gross. You just need to be able, listening, to hear not only the words, but also the pauses between them.
Eksmo, 272 p.