Taming of Solitude

<p><em>Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award!</em></p><p>Psychoanalysts would argue that at the root of anxiety about loneliness which commonly brings people into analysis lies anxiety about separation unresolved since childhood.</p><p>When re-experienced in analysis the painful awareness of solitude - the sense of being a separate person - can become a rich source of personal creativity. In <em>The Taming of Solitude</em> Jean-Michel Quinodoz brings together the views of Freud Klein Hanna Segal W.R.D. Fairbairn D.W. Winnicott Anna Freud Margaret Mahler Heinz Kohut John Bowlby and others presenting a comprehensive approach to the experience of loneliness a universal phenomenon which can be observed in everyday life and in any therapeutic situation.</p><p>Written with clarity and insight <em>The Taming of Solitude </em>will be of great interest to all psychoanalysts and therapists.</p>