'Extremely engaging! A book full of good moments and humane insights.' Alan Ryan, Observer This book collects the essays of one of England's best-known and most distinguished psychiatrists. Its theme is creativity. What internal dynamic forces artists, scientists and politicians to devote so much time and energy to creative invention? Anthony Storr weighs and tests Freud's theory that creativity is the result of dissatisfaction by examining the impulses which drove such figures as Churchill, Kafka and Newton. Whether he is exploring the 'divine discontent' that motivates creativity, analysing Jung's mid-life crisis, assessing the psychology of jealousy in Othello or denouncing the abuses of psychiatry, Storr brings wisdom, erudition and compassion to all his subjects in this highly readable and human collection, which is accessible to those who know nothing about psychoanalysis as well as to those who know a great deal.

Churchill's Black Dog: And Other Phenomena of the Human Mind

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Storr,Anthony

Psychology & Counseling

Collins

This book discusses a dimension of the human personality, charismatic leadership which often excites much curiosity but which no one until now has been able to explain. with dw, 1996

Feet of Clay: Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: A Study of Gurus

Religion & Spirituality

The Free Press

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Jung (Fontana modern masters)

Fontana

A collection of essays from one of England's distinguished psychiatrists. Its theme is creativity. What internal dynamic forces artists, scientists and politicians to devote so much time and energy to creative invention? It examines the impulses which drove such figures as Churchill and Newton.

Churchill's Black Dog

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Fontana Harpercollins

There are many reports of strange cults which enthral their followers and cut themselves off from the world. Invariably led by gurus, or "spiritual leaders", the fruit of these cults are mass suicides in the South American jungle or the self-immolation of hundreds in besieged fortresses. This study provides an examination of these men and women and of those who follow them. It takes as example some of those considered to be modern gurus - James Jones, David Koresh, the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Gurdjieff and others - and establishes what each of them has in common. It then examines what they share with other gurus whose teachings are accepted or at least respected - Jung, Freud, Ignatius Loyola, Jesus himself - and finds some startling continuities.

Feet of Clay: A Study of Gurus

HARPER/COLLINS

This work provides a clear exposition of Jung's theories showing his ideas to be relevant to the times in which we live. His emphasis on the spiritual aspect to existence contrasts with Freud's insistence on the physical.

Jung

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

Collins Distribution

Jung: A Modern Master

Fontana Press

Examines the role of solitude in creativity mourning, and religious experience, discussses enforced solitude, and argues that solitude can foster postive behavior

Solitude a Return to the Self

Mental Health

Free Press

A look at music and its relation to human perception traces the origins of music and its functional development in human society as entertainment, communication, and therapy, arguing for the universality and centrality of music.

Music and the Mind

Arts & Photography

Music

Anthony Storr writes both as a psychotherapist and as someone who is living in an age in which the destruction of the world is a distinct possibility. But the coin of aggression, as he shows, bears two faces. He discusses its normal role as a positive and natural drive, in the social structure of both animals and humans and its function in childhood, adult life and sexual relations; its negative aspect he considers in relation to hostility, depressive, schizoid, paranoid and psychopathic personalities. He closes with a plea - modest, humane and never Utopian - for attitudes and policies that in the long run might reduce hostility between peoples and between nations.

Human Aggression

Penguin Uk

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