Glebs Troscenkovs

About Human Goodness (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on Emergent Psychoanalytic Literature

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through twelve essays, this book synthesizes the psychoanalytic literature on positive emotions of human goodness.

Psychoanalysis's goal as an ethical practice is to ultimately foster human goodness through mental health and wellbeing. About Human Goodness: Essays on Emergent Psychoanalytic Literature brings together the relatively limited and scattered psychoanalytic literature on human goodness and positive emotions; to synthesize, analyze, and narrate the main ideas of that literature; and to discuss these ideas with personal reflections on each topic. It presents twelve essays, each on a book related to an aspect of goodness: kindness, gentleness, commitment, passion, love, forgiveness, happiness, dignity, playfulness, spontaneity, curiosity, and faith, with an outro on gratitude. This book will be of interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, professionals and students in mental health, and, more broadly, to readers in psychology, sociology, philosophy, and other humanitarian sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881803834
• Artikelnr.: 74494658

Autorenporträt

Glebs Troscenkovs, MD, is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and psychoanalyst-in-training from Riga, Latvia. He is a full member of Latvian Association of Psychotherapists and a candidate of Estonian-Latvian Psychoanalytical Society and International Psychoanalytical Association. He has published in the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies and the American Journal of Psychoanalysis. His special areas of interest include analyzing psychoanalytic literature and educating psychotherapists.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface
Part I: Prologue
Chapter One: Human Goodness: An Overview
Part II: Mostly Interpersonal
Chapter Two: Kindness: Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor's On Kindness
Chapter Three: Gentleness: Michal Barnea-Astrog's Psychoanalytic and
Buddhist Reflections on Gentleness
Chapter Four: Commitment: Herbert J. Schlesinger's Promises, Oaths, and
Vows
Chapter Five: Passion: Brent Willock, Rebecca C. Curtis, and Lori C. Bohm's
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Passion
Chapter Six: Love: Andre Green and Gregorio Kohon's Love and Its
Vicissitudes
Chapter Seven: Forgiveness: Ronald Britton and Aleksandra Novakovic's
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Forgiveness and Mental Health
Part III: Mostly Intrapsychic
Chapter Eight: Happiness: Ahron Friedberg and Sandra Sherman's Towards
Happiness
Chapter Nine: Dignity: Susan S. Levine's Dignity Matters
Chapter Ten: Playfulness: Emilia Perroni's Play
Chapter Eleven: Spontaneity: Gemma Corradi Fiumara's Spontaneity
Chapter Twelve: Curiosity: Philip Stokoe's The Curiosity Drive
Chapter Thirteen: Faith: Michael Eigen's Faith
Part IV: Epilogue
Chapter Fourteen: Gratitude
References
Index
About the Author