Anthony Storr byl anglický psychiatr a autor známý svými hloubkovými psychoanalytickými portréty historických postav. Jeho dílo čerpá z vlastních zkušeností a pochopení lidského utrpení, což mu umožnilo proniknout do psychiky jednotlivců s mimořádnou hloubkou. Storrův spisovatelský styl je laskavý a pronikavý, nabízí čtenářům jedinečný vhled do motivací a vnitřních bojů zkoumaných osobností. Jeho práce jsou ceněny pro svou psychologickou přesnost a literární kvalitu.
Storr’s The Art of Psychotherapy appeared in 1979 and became an instant
classic. After Storr’s death, a third edition was rewritten and revised by
Jeremy Holmes, and the fourth edition is a further up-to-date iteration.
In this compact volume, British psychiatrist and writer Anthony Storr has selected extracts from Jung's writings that pinpoint his many original contributions and relate the development of his thought to his biography. Storr's explanatory notes and introduction show the progress and coherence of Jung's ideas. These notes link the extracts, and with Dr. Storr's introduction, they show the progress and coherence of Jung's ideas, including such concepts as the collective unconscious, the archetypes, introversion and extroversion, individuation, and Jung's view of integration as the goal of the development of the personality.Jung maintained that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves and that our most pressing task is to deflect our gaze away from the external world and toward the study of our own nature. In a world torn by conflict and threatened by annihilation, his message has an urgent relevance for every thoughtful person.
Aby člověk pochopil, kdo je to guru, a porozuměl mu, musí být připraven zvážit otázku, kde leží hranice mezi racionalitou a šílenstvím, mezi tzv. zdravým rozumem a bláznovstvím.
Autor se zabývá tématem iluze a víry i jezuity a Ježíšem. Pojednává o velkých duchovních vůdcích, hnutích, kultech i charitativních organizacích, zamýšlí se nad osobnostmi, jako byl Gurdjieff, Jung, Freud, Steiner a mnoho dalších.
The author disagrees with the view that only intimate relationships can provide mental and personal satisfaction arguing that solitude has restorative powers.
This title collects the essays of one of England's best-known and most distinguished psychiatrists. Storr weighs and tests Freud's theory that creativity is the result of dissatisfaction by examining the impulses which drove Kafka, Newton and Churchill.