ALL YOU want is a simple piece of advice.
An edition of Should you leave?: A Psychiatrist Explores Intimacy and Autonomy--and the Nature of Advice
(1997)
Should you leave?
by Peter D. Kramer
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A writer who presents his vast knowledge of psychiatry with the art of a novelist, Peter D. Kramer imagines scenarios in which he addresses a series of advice seekers. Each "session" not only reveals the various styles of giving advice - from Freudian psychoanalytic techniques to Ann Landers's application of conventional values - but probes the complexities of human relationships: How do we choose our partners? How well do we know them? How do mood states affect our assessment of them and theirs of us?
When should we work to improve a relationship, and when should we walk away? What does "working on a relationship" entail? Kramer's questions lead to a reconsideration of our culture's norms - and to a suggestion that we may have begun to over-value autonomy and assertiveness at the cost of intimacy and connectedness.
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Should You Leave?: A Psychiatrist Explores Intimacy and Autonomy--and the Nature of Advice
January 1, 1999, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Should You Leave : A Psychiatrist Explores Intimacy and Autonomy and the Nature of Advice
September 1, 1997, Sound Ideas
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in English
0671576275 9780671576271
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-307) and index.
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