The Myth of Neurosis: Overcoming the Illness Excuse

By Garth Wood

Book Overview

One of Britain's leading psychiatrists disavows the modern belief that common unhappiness is neurosis, and advocates Moral Therapy techniques in this controversial bestseller that sold over 30,000... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060154888
• ISBN13: 9780060154882
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Superb!

Wow. Wow. and Wow! Basically Wood summarizes "To reaffirm that life in not about the selfish search for pleasure but about the contendedness that comes from hardship, duty, love and sacrifice." This book was origianally written 1983. This is the type of literature that would warrent one to get drawn-and-quartered. Wood basically says neurosis is about the notion of evil; and the field confuses evil with disease. 12 Step program is a $6 billion dollar industry. Wood is not making any friends in that field. He says that like Valium and Cocaine, talk therapy is addictive. a passive "patient" prostrate at the feet of the "healer," suffering the psychological pain of guilt as he learns to like himself less.