Disappearing Persons: Shame and Appearance (Suny Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture)

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Summary: The Mutifarious Mind
Review: Kilborne's book achieves itself quietly and with a tremendous and subtle power. Interweaving a vast knowledge of literature with a keen understanding of the vissisitudes of language and pychoanalytic practice, Kilborne explores the nature of grief and loss. This book is extraordinary in its capacity to articulate clearly and concisely the private phemonenon by which people come to lose themselves, only to spend their lives attempting to reconstruct that central loss.

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Summary: Review of Disappearing Persons
Review: This is a wonderful book, filled with psychoanalytic wisdom on an often neglected topic, that of shame and its contribution to character development. Kilborne writes with grace and wit, interweaving analytic concepts and case studies with a rich collection of references from literature, philosophy, anthropology, history and even politics. The book covers lots of territory, but not at the expense of depth. It never loses its focus on the concept of shame, and never descends into the byzantine psychoanalytic jargonizing one encounters so often in books of this type. It also contains abundant references and end notes. I highly recommend it for psychoanalysts, other psychotherapists and anyone else with a humanistic interest.

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Summary: Review of Disappearing Persons
Review: This is a wonderful book, filled with psychoanalytic wisdom on an often neglected topic, that of shame and its contribution to character development. Kilborne writes with grace and wit, interweaving analytic concepts and case studies with a rich collection of references from literature, philosophy, anthropology, history and even politics. The book covers lots of territory, but not at the expense of depth. It never loses its focus on the concept of shame, and never descends into the byzantine psychoanalytic jargonizing one encounters so often in books of this type. It also contains abundant references and end notes. I highly recommend it for psychoanalysts, other psychotherapists and anyone else with a humanistic interest.