A Different Path: An Emotional Autobiography
Book Details
- Publisher : Sphinx
- Published : September 2018
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 334
- Category :
Memoir - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 93829
- ISBN 13 : 9781912573578
- ISBN 10 : 1912573571
Also by Neville Symington
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"Our human task is to be lived by Life. Life as a transcendent principle. It seems to me that a reliable test of whether we have lived worthwhile lives is this: is the world a better place for my having lived in it?"
Neville Symington has written a dozen books about psychoanalysis but this one is different from all the others. It is an emotional autobiography that starts with his own birth and gives a character sketch of his mother and father and his upbringing in Portugal, with a two year period in Canada, and takes the reader through to the age of 45 by which time he was a qualified psychoanalyst, married with two sons and, at the time, living in London.
This sounds like the story of a peaceful journey from childhood through to his chosen career in adulthood. However, the author takes the reader through the period of his earlier career in the Church in a parish in the East End of London and the turbulent period of change that led him to take leave of this first career, seek psychoanalysis and finally to become a psychoanalyst himself.
This is an engaging book that charts the emotional storms and the ups and downs that beset the life’s journey of a well-known psychoanalyst.
About the Author(s)
Neville Symington is a member of the British and Australian Psychoanalytical Societies. His books include Narcissism: A New Theory, The Making of a Psychotherapist, A Pattern of Madness and Becoming a Person Through Psychoanalysis (all published by Karnac Books); The Analytic Experience, and The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion (written with Joan Symington). He has a private psychoanalytic practice in New South Wales, Australia.
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