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The Importance of Disappointment

By Ian Craib

Published September 22nd 1994 by Routledge – 216 pages

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This sane and insightful discussion explores the nature of identity in late modern societies to criticize the way in which psychotherapy has become an ideology of late modernity and to emphasize the importance of `negative' messages in psychoanalytic theory.

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Ian Craib is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex and a psychoanalytic group psychotherapist.

Name: The Importance of Disappointment (Hardback) – Routledge 
Description: By Ian Craib. This sane and insightful discussion explores the nature of identity in late modern societies to criticize the way in which psychotherapy has become an ideology of late modernity and to emphasize the importance of `negative' messages in...
Categories: Sociology & Social Policy, Self & Social Identity