Leonard Shengold: 3 books
Is There Life Without Mother?
Psychoanalysis, Biography, Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In this richly textured study of personal growth and creativity hemmed in by childhood disaster, Shengold compares the differing gifts and differing solutions of extraordinary talents as they seek to negotiate a universal longing to refind the mother without sliding back into neglect, abuse, and despair....
If You Can't Trust Your Mother, Whom Can You Trust?
Soul Murder, Psychoanalysis and Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The main theme of this book concerns the continuing psychic centrality of parents for their children. Several chapters examine an author and his works, outlining that author's relationships with parents, good-and-bad, and making descriptive comments about these based both on information gleaned from...
The Promise
Who is in Charge of Time and Space?
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Our sense of identity begins (our psychological birth sometime in the first year of life) with the feeling that we are the centre of the universe, protected by godlike benevolent parents who will enable us to live happily ever after. This is the "Promise" that is never given up, lurking...