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Solitude

By Anthony Storr

Book information

Publisher
Flamingo
Year
1989
ISBN
9780007385669, 0007385668
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4106228 bytes)
Pages
216\244
Topic
Psychology
Library
solitude0000stor
Time added
2022-08-29 16:08:14
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Description

In this brilliant and acclaimed book, the eminent psychiatrist Dr Anthony Storr challenges the widely held view that success in personal relationships is the only key to happiness. He argues persuasively that we pay far too little attention to some of the other great satisfactions of life - work and creativity. In a series of skilful biographical sketches, he demonstrates how many of the creative geniuses of our civilisation have been solitary, by temperament or circumstance, and how the capacity to be alone is, even for those who are not creative, a sign of maturity. Solitude About the Author Acknowledgements Contents Introduction 1 The Significance of Human Relationships 2 The Capacity to be Alone 3 The Uses of Solitude 4 Enforced Solitude 5 The Hunger of Imagination 6 The Significance of the Individual 7 Solitude and Temperament 8 Separation, Isolation, and the Growth of Imagination 9 Bereavement, Depression and Repair 10 The Search for Coherence 11 The Third Period 12 The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole References Epigraphs Index

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