The Puppeteers: Studies of Obsessive Control

By Gerald Alper

Book Overview

The Puppeteers is a remarkable exploration of the loss of freedom. Freedom is lost through ignorance of the extent to which one is being controlled, as well as through the belief that controlling something, someone or oneself enhances personal power. The Puppeteers is comprised of three major case studies, which demonstrate what happens to people who live by the rules and enforce the rules, but do so obsessively, inhumanly, and mechanistically.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573093165
• ISBN13: 9781573093163
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: International Scholars Publications
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

A fine study of control and manipulation

Jerry Alper writes in a clear concise way about one of our times great personal mysteries: why some people strive to control,manipulate and demean those they love, those they seek as personal intimates. The various congeries of behevior are discussed and a clear picture is fixed in the readers mind within a few case study examoles.