The Authority of Tenderness: Dignity and the True Self in Psychoanalysis

by Paul Williams

Book Overview

This insightful and beautifully written work explores nonlinear processes of recovery of the loss of Self. The inherent healing power of hard-earned, wholehearted self-acceptance is conceived through the authority of tenderness.

The book is the final volume in The Fifth Principle trilogy (the second book being Scum), which chronicled, through the course of one boy's lifetime, the methods of a mind which is not a mind, in its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032009365
• ISBN13: 9781032009360
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.9" x 7.6"