Life Lessons from Freud by Kahr, Brett, The School of Life (2013) Paperback

Sigmund Freud is best known as the father of psychoanalysis. Born in 1856, he was a physiologist, medical doctor and psychologist who spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria. He developed revolutionary ideas about the unconscious mind, repression and the meaning of dreams and the clinical method of treatment through dialogue. Here you will find extracts from his greatest works. The Life Lessons series from The School of Life takes a great thinker and highlights those ideas most relevant to ordinary everyday dilemmas. These books emphasise ways in which wise voices from the past have urgently important and inspiring things to tell us. This book is introduced and edited by Brett Kahr, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London. He is a qualified psychotherapist and author. The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on Sunday Sigmund Freud is best known as the father of psychoanalysis. Born in 1856, he was a physiologist, medical doctor and psychologist who spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria. He developed revolutionary ideas about the unconscious mind, repression and the meaning of dreams and the clinical method of treatment through dialogue. Here you will find insights from his greatest works. The Life Lessons series from The School of Life takes a great thinker and highlights those ideas most relevant to ordinary, everyday dilemmas. These books emphasize ways in which wise voices from the past have urgently important and inspiring things to tell us. 'thoroughly welcoming and approachable ... If the six books in the Life Lessons series can teach even a few readers to pay passionate heed to the world - to notice things - they will have been an unquestionable success' John Banville, Prospect 'there is a good deal to be learned from these little primers' Observer A srie Lies de vida aborda, em cada volume, o trabalho de um grande pensador, trazendo tona suas ideias mais relevantes para entendermos nossos dilemas cotidianos. "O primeiro homem a arremessar palavras de insulto ao inimigo em vez de uma lana foi o fundador da civilizao. Portanto, palavras so substitutos dos atos, e em certas circunstncias os nicos substitutos." Sigmund Freud Com suas ideias revolucionrias sobre o significado dos sonhos, o recalque, o inconsciente e o mtodo clnico de tratamento pela fala, Freud deixou como legado uma psicologia rica, detalhada e provocadora. Uma vez absorvida, ela tem a habilidade de aprimorar nossa sensibilidade com os outros e com ns mesmos, aprofundar nossa criatividade e melhorar o tecido de nossas vidas. Organizados pela The School of Life, um centro de saber e bem-estar fundado em Londres por Alain de Botton, esses livros mostram como as vozes da sabedoria de outras pocas tm algo inspirador para cada um de ns. "H muito a se aprender com essas pequenas prolas." The Observer "'The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on Sunday Sigmund Freud is best known as the father of psychoanalysis. Born in 1856, he was a physiologist, medical doctor and psychologist who spent most of his life in Vienna, Austria. He developed revolutionary ideas about the unconscious mind, repression and the meaning of dreams and the clinical method of treatment through dialogue. Here you will find insights from his greatest works."--Publisher's description. Read more... Abstract: Essential life lessons from Sigmund Freud, one of life's Great Thinkers, brought to you by Brett Kahr Read more...