Schopenhauers Porcupines, Deborah Anna Luepnitz
Schopenhauers Porcupines, Deborah Anna Luepnitz
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Schopenhauer's Porcupines
Intimacy And Its Dilemmas: Five Stories Of Psychotherapy

Author: Deborah Anna Luepnitz

Narrator: Deborah Anna Luepnitz

Unabridged: 8 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 06/29/2021

Synopsis

The classic compilation of psychological case studies from a master clinician and lyrical writer

Each generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers likeDeborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy and wit shine in her fine, luminous prose. In Schopenhauer's Porcupines, she recounts five true stories from her practice, stories of patients who range from the super-rich to the destitute, who grapple with panic attacks, psychosomatic illness, marital despair, and sexual recklessness. Intimate, original, and triumphantly funny, Schopenhauer's Porcupines goes further than any other book in illuminating "how talking helps."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kasandra on June 11, 2018

A really nice book for practicing therapists. I'm a social worker practicing as a therapist in a community mental health agency - meaning, working exclusively with the Medicaid population. Often times, when I read something on therapy praxis from the psychoanalytic perspective (*cough*Yalom*cough*)......more

Goodreads review by Matt on June 23, 2011

Personally I think it's impossible to read this book without becoming struck by how emotional all of these stories are. Dr. Lueopnitz writes like a novelist who is intricately aware of human suffering. She discusses psychoanalytic theory in a way that is understandable to all, and embraces the exper......more

Goodreads review by Mad on August 29, 2024

Brilliant! even bette than Yalom, much more better. and Yalom is good, very good :)......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on November 08, 2023

fire......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on May 14, 2025

I went into this one as psychoanalysis-curious and, post-read, dare I come out as a believer in the approach??? MAYBE!!! This book is excellent. Luepnitz writes like a novelist, and she presents her stories in an approachable (nothing unnecessarily complex!!), knowledgable (but she is clearly a soph......more

Quotes

"Drawing heavily on the work of Lacan, Winnicott, and Klein, Luepintz educates us as well, allowing us to look over her shoulder and see miracles happen."—Boston Globe

"Schopenhauer's Porcupines is the most affirming, original, and literate psychoanalytic work of the past thirty years."—Psychoanalytic Psychology

"I could not put Schopenhauer's Porcupines down. These stories illustrate how a master clinician uses complex and sophisticated theory with just the right light touch, so that it seems transparent to her patients and her readers."—Lewis Aron, PhD, Director, New York University

"Deborah Luepnitz brings a rare grace, wisdom, and literary imagination to these moving stories of patients and therapists talking their way toward the illumination of themselves and each other."—Lynne Sharon Schwartz, author of Disturbances in the Field

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