num_pages: 288
description: 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 like Deborah 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."
language: English
title: Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas
titlecomplete: Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas
genres: Philosophy, Mental Health, Science, Counselling, Social Work, Psychology, Nonfiction, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Relationships
ratings_count: 1424
publisher: Basic Books