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Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain: Becoming Conscious in an Unconscious Worldby Elio Frattaroli
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:"It is no exaggeration to say that psychiatry today is in imminent danger of losing its mind altogether," writes Elio Frattaroli, M.D., in this landmark book. What he is talking about is a medical model of the brain that denies the very existence of anything like a soul — based on big science?s delusionary hope that it is actually possible to fix the soul?s sickness by taking a pill. Much as we might like one, Frattaroli argues, there is no quick fix for the soul; we yearn for something more than what Prozac can provide. Frattaroli writes with spirit, combining a Renaissance sensibility with an unshakable humanism that shows why tapping into the soul is the highest quest on which we can embark. His references hark back to Shakespeare, to Freud, to Descartes and Bohr; in drawing upon physics, philosophy, literature, and psychology, and by using riveting case histories from his own life and practice, Frattaroli illuminates some of the most complex intellectual discoveries of our time. In the 1990s, Viking?s publication of the bestseller Listening to Prozac sparked nationwide controversy and became the touchstone for one of the most widely debated issues of its time. Now, Elio Frattaroli explores what has happened to a culture that has been ?listening to Prozac? and hearing nothing else. Intellectually stimulating, and emotionally satisfying, Healing the Soul is one of those life-changing books that will become a classic. Controversial and provocative, it illuminates the route to becoming the full, rich person we each have it in us to be. Review:"A major achievement." Library Journal Review:"[R]eaders will find of utmost interest his call for a deeper, more thoughtful approach to understanding psychological problems." Booklist Review:"Frattaroli is a deeply serious person with important things to say....Brilliant." The Washington Post Book World Synopsis:Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-448) and index. About the AuthorElio Frattaroli, M.D., is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in full-time private practice. He is on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia and is associate director of their Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training Program. He is also an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. He studied Shakespeare at Harvard and trained with Bruno Bettelheim at the University of Chicago before turning to medicine. He has written and lectured on Shakespeare as well as on psychiatry and psychoanalysis. He lives and practices in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. This is his first book. Table of ContentsHealing the Soul in the Age of the Brain, Contents Contents Acknowledgments, vii Part I: The Importance of Being Conscious 1: A Brief Introduction to the Soul, 3 2: The Technocrat and the Cowboy, 25 3: An Introduction to the Psychotherapeutic Process, 61 Part II: The Medical Model and the Psychotherapeutic Model: A Personal Commentary on Psychiatry, Science, and the Philosophy of Life 4: A Lecture to Young Psychiatrists, 81 5: The Swimming Pool and the Quest, 104 6: The End Is in the Beginning: A Tribute to Bruno Bettelheim, 132 Part III: Science: The Untold Story 7: Two Kinds of Truth: The Principle of Complementarity, 151 8: A Science of Subjectivity: Complementarity and Consciousness, 159 Part IV: Experiencing the Psychotherapeutic Process 9: Anxiety and the Spirit of Questioning, 183 10: Introspection and Putting It into Words, 202 11: Resistance and Transference, 218 12: But Isn't Psychoanalysis Supposed to Be About Sex?, 243 Part V: History Lessons 13: Respect the Symptom, 279 14: Freud's Theory of the Soul: From the Swimming Pool to the Quest, 294 15: Integrating the Swimming Pool Within the Quest:"Where It Was, There Shall I Become", 318 Part VI: The Mind-Body Problem and the Crisis in Our Culture 16: What Is the Soul?, 331 17: What Are We Really Hearing When We Listen to Prozac?, 362 18: Repetition, Reflection, and the Search for Meaning, 400
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