Jeffrey Masson: 22 books
The Emperor's Embrace
Reflections on Animal Families and Fatherhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2001
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson's "marvelous" (Jane Goodall) New York Times bestseller, When Elephants Weep, made us re-evaluate the emotional lives of animals. And in his follow-up New York Times bestseller, Dogs Never Lie About Love, Masson reflected with "intelligence and originality" (Los Angeles Times...
The Wild Child
The Unsolved Mystery of Kaspar Hauser
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Kept in a dungeon for his entire childhood, Kaspar Hauser appeared in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1828 at age sixteen, barely able to walk or talk. When he was killed in 1833, his true identity and the motives for his unsolved murder became the subjects of intense speculation. This provocative essay sheds...
Slipping into Paradise
Why I Live in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
In the tradition of Under the Tuscan Sun and A Year in Provence, here is Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s ode to his personal paradise–his adopted home, New Zealand. After living in California, why did Masson settle– out of all the places on earth–in such a faraway land? It turns out that while...
The Pig Who Sang to the Moon
The Emotional World of Farm Animals
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s groundbreaking bestseller, When Elephants Weep, was the first book since Darwin’s time to explore emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild. Now, he focuses exclusively on the contained world of the farm animal, revealing startling, irrefutable...
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
As a child growing up in the Hollywood Hills during the 1950s, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson thought it was perfectly normal that a guru named Paul Brunton lived with his family and dictated everything about their daily rituals, from their diet to their travel plans to his parents' sex life. But in this...
The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats
A Journey Into the Feline Heart
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2002
In the hugely popular New York Times bestseller, Dogs Never Lie About Love, provocative psychoanalyst Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson brilliantly navigated the inner landscape of “man’s best friend.” Now he delves deep into the secretive, playful world of cats, revealing emotions, debunking myths,...
Final Analysis
The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
He was the rising star of psychoanalysis, an intimate associate of Anna Freud and Kurt Eissler, a member of the Freudian “inner circle” with unrestricted access to the Freud Archives. And then Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson threw it all away because he dared to break the psychoanalytic communitys deepest...
Beasts
What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Bestselling author Jeffrey Masson shows us what the animals at the top of the food chain-orca whales, big cats, etc.-can teach us about the origins of good and evil in ourselves.
In his previous bestsellers, Masson has showed us that animals can teach us much about our own emotions-love (dogs),...
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2010
“It’s a challenge to create transformative moments with books, but [Masson] does it.”—Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times
In this revelatory work, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson shows how food affects our moral selves, our health, and our planet. Masson investigates how denial keeps...
When Elephants Weep
The Emotional Lives of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives of animals was hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as "marvelous" by Jane Goodall.
The popularity of When Elephants Weep has swept the nation, as author Jeffrey Masson appeared on Dateline...
The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving
How Dogs Have Captured Our Hearts for Thousands of Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Dog lovers get ready – Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, international bestselling author of Dogs Never Lie About Love (which the San Francisco Chronicle calls "winning and wise," and "a charming paean to our best friends"), is back with an inspiring, heart-warming, and deeply personal...
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
“I did not want to fail, because the stakes were too high. After all, I was after nothing less than the secret of human harmony.” The challenge that bestselling author Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson set for himself was formidable: to create a true interspecies peaceable kingdom within his own household....
by Shawn Thompson, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Kusasi is a three-hundred-pound male who could rip your arms and legs off like daisy petals if he wanted. Princess was taught sign language by a researcher and had a limited ability to combine vocabulary. . ..
For centuries the shaggy red orangutan lived in peaceful seclusion in the jungles...
Against Therapy
Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of Psychological Healing
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
In this ground-breaking and highly controversial book, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson attacks the very foundations of modern psychotherapy from Freud to Jung, from Fritz Perls to Carl Rodgers. With passion and clarity, Against Therapy addresses the profession's core weaknesses, contending that, since therapy's...
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