num_pages: 216
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Importance of Disappointment
titlecomplete: The Importance of Disappointment
genres: Sociology, Psychology
ratings_count: 26
publisher: Routledge