Growing Up?: A Journey With Laughter - Couverture souple

Casement, Patrick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 178220315X ISBN 13 : 9781782203155

Editeur : Karnac Books, 2015

Synopsis

This book, by a well established author previously writing in a quite different genre, that of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and counselling, is written for an entirely different readership. Patrick Casement has put together a fascinating account of his strange journey from a privileged background, through schools and national service, and then through university, avoiding throughout the wishes of his family for him to join the Royal Navy. Instead, he leaves university with a degree but heads straight into becoming a bricklayer's mate. From there, eventually, he gets through the vicissitudes of probation and social work, and the hilarious experiences of trying to furnish his first flat. He thus moves into what he describes as the "real" world - getting what his family would regard as a "real job" (or two). But despite that, he continues on his unpredictable journey - into becoming a psychotherapist and then a psychoanalyst: what his mother thought was "training to become a psychotic." This book is filled with laughter - that of the author laughing at himself as he invites the reader to laugh along with him in his journey through the vicissitudes of life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Patrick Casement is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis and a Member of the International Association of Psychoanalysis. He was formerly a training analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society, having been in full-time private practice for many years, now retired. He is the author of numerous publications.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Karnac Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 178220315X
• ISBN 13: 9781782203155
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 276
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• Personne responsable: non disponible