Creator: Ann Branaman
Publication date: 1997-05-14
Dewey code: 301.0973
RRP: £24.99
Price: £20.87
Review The Goffman Reader (Blackwell Readers) / WileyBlackwell:
Publication date: 2004-04-30
Dewey code: 301.092
RRP: £15.99
Price: £11.32
Review In Sierra Leone / Duke University Press:
Publication date: 2002-01-01
Dewey code: 510.904
RRP: £19.95
Price: £13.16
Review The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers / A K Peters:
Publication date: 2007-01-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £10.00
Price: £9.31
Review Suicide Junkie / Chipmunkapublishing:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-07-06
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.30
Review The Man with the Beautiful Voice: And More Stories from the Other Side of the Couch / Piatkus Books:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-06-15
Dewey code: 150.1952092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.99
Review Freud (Routledge Philosophers) / Routledge:
Publication date: 2004-04-20
Dewey code: 616.8914
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.26
Review Rational Emotive Behavior: It Works for Me, it Can Work for You: It Works for Me, It Can Work for You / Prometheus Books:
Creator: Irene Clephane
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-07-27
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.90
Review Words (Penguin Modern Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-08-03
Dewey code: 301.092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £8.99
Review Erving Goffman (Key Sociologists) / Routledge:
Creator: Gretchen Edgren
Publication date: 2005-12-01
Dewey code: 779.280973
RRP: £24.99
Price: £15.38
Review The Playmate Book - Six Decades of Centerfolds / Taschen GmbH:
Creator: Christine M. Rose
Publication date: 2008-12
Dewey code: 809.93592
RRP: £8.95
Price: £8.94
Review Living Autobiographically: How We Create Identity in Narrative / Cornell University Press:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2007-02-08
RRP: £7.99
Price: £0.01
Review The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky / Sceptre:
Creator: Gregorio Kohon
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1999-05-20
Dewey code: 150.195092
RRP: £22.99
Price: £17.18
Review The Dead Mother: The Work of Andre Green (New Library of Psychoanalysis) / Routledge:
Publication date: 1998-03
Dewey code: 192
RRP: £17.99
Price: £22.41
Review The Jew of Linz: Wittgenstein, Hitler and Their Secret Battle for the Mind / Century:
Creator: Peter Kingsley
Publication date: 1993-12-31
Dewey code: 297
RRP: £20.99
Price: £14.27
Review Quest for the Red Sulphur. The Life of Ibn 'Arabi / Islamic Texts Society:
Publication date: 2002-01-24
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £1.99
Review Country Doctor: Tales of a Rural GP / Robinson Publishing:
Publication date: 2002-11
Dewey code: 100
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.69
Review The Sign of Jonas / Harvest Books:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2002-11-18
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.90
Review Houdini's Box: On the Arts of Escape / Faber and Faber:Escape, like all travel, is defined by departure points and destinations, inextricably bound yet with a flux between. Adam Phillips is concerned with that transitory space in Houdini's Box, a marvellous, beguiling treatise on our seemingly innate desire for flight. It opens with a short introductory chapter describing a young girl who sees Phillips, a psychotherapist, and plays a strange game of hide-and-seek that opens up complicated notions involving fear and desire of being "found". This leads into two parallel, interwoven narratives. One concerns the incomparable escapologist Houdini (though he preferred "mystifier"), and comprises a biographical footprint of this assimilated Jew, the immigrant "escapee". On the face of it, his performances were absurd, escaping from self-imposed bondage, leaving nothing changed. Yet, at the same time, everything was different, and the effect was akin to social hypnotism. The flip side was an equal passion for debunking and exposing self-styled spiritualists for the charlatans, or at least bad practitioners, they were. From some things there is no escape, as Houdini understood very well. The second narrative follows Phillips' sessions with a middle-aged man who comes to him after badgering from his (ex-) girlfriend, who said she wanted to help "his next ex". [+]He had no regard whatever for the things that mattered most to him, and chased women relentlessly so that he could run away from them. In Phillips' words, "the woman as object of desire had been replaced by flight from woman as an object of desire". Erudite, allusive and elusive, only when Phillips suggests, tellingly, that he is avoiding risk-taking by busying himself with choices, does he do what comes naturally, and take flight. It is escapism itself which is the most hypnotic, wielding the infinite freedom of potential, and which proves the hardest to escape from. The final piece is a paper on Emily Dickinson, which, though brief, illuminatingly contrasts two poems written 15 years apart in which she dwelt on her voluntary confinement, and escape. There is certainly no escaping Phillips' dazzling talent. Drawing on mythology, psychotherapy theory, poetry and clinical experience, the author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored and Darwin's Worms continues to imaginatively work the borders of psychotherapy and literature, and to write some of the most richly stimulating and creative prose around. Perhaps his most accessible work to date, this is escapist literature at its best. -David Vincent.
Creator: P. David Marshall
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-11-28
Dewey code: 909.82
RRP: £24.99
Price: £19.74
Review Celebrity Culture Reader / Routledge:
Creator: Namida King
Publication date: 2004-08-01
Dewey code: 370
RRP: £9.95
Price: £6.55
Review Straight to Hell: Great Suicides of the 20th Century (Modern Death) / Creation Books:
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