<p>This study challenges the widely-held view that success in personal relationships is the only key to happiness. It argues that we pay far too little attention to some of the other great satisfactions of life - work and creativity. In a series of biographical sketches it demonstrates how many of the creative geniuses of our civilization 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.</p>

Solitude

Anthony Storr

Parenting & Relationships

Harpercollins

This collection of essays concerns the subject of creativity. What internal forces impel men and women to devote so much time and energy to creative invention, whether in the arts, the sciences, or other fields? Storr weighs and tests Freud's theory that creativity is the result of dissatisfaction. In one of the essays he concludes that Churchill's courage and energy can ultimately be attributed to his depressive personality. In another, he indentifies the search for a sense of identity which pervades the work of Kafka as a failure to grow out of the sense of helplessness experienced by infants. The author also wrote "Music and the Mind".

Churchill's Black Dog

Medical Books

Psychology

HarperCollins, Publishers

<p>Why does music have such a powerful effect on our minds and bodies? It is the most mysterious and most tangible of all forms of art. Yet, Anthony Storr believes, music today is a deeply significant experience for a greater number of people than ever before. In this book, he explores why this should be so. Drawing on a wide variety of opinions, Storr argues t hat the patterns of music make sense of our inner experience, giving both structure and coherence to our feelings and emotions. It is because music possesses this capacity to restore our sense of personal wholeness in a culture which requires us to separate rational thought from feelings that many people find it so life-enhancing that it justifies existence. The author also wrote "Churchill's Black Dog".</p>

Music and the Mind

Arts & Photography

Music

Flamingo

Psychoanalysis Observed

Charles Rycroft

Geoffrey Gorer

John Wren-Lewis

Peter Lomas

Constable

Draws on various approaches to psychotherapy to discuss basic assumptions about human nature, the goals of the therapeutic process, and the development of the human personality

The Integrity of the Personality (Pelican)

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The Integrity of the Personality

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Oxford Paperbacks

Aimed primarily at postgraduate doctors who are embarking on specialist training with a view to becoming psychiatrists, this book is intended to provide an introduction to the practice of psychotherapy. It is not intended as a guide to passing examinations, although it may be useful in answering questions about psychotherapy in such examinations as the MRCPsych. It is intended to be a practical manual for the inexperienced doctor who is faced with a patient who has been referred for psychotherapy.

The Art of Psychotherapy

Medicine

Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd.

Art of Psychotherapy

Jung

Routledge

Solitude: A Return to the Self (Chinese Edition)

China Machine Press

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Anthony Storr. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Anthony Storr