Should You Leave?: A Psychiatrist Explores Intimacy and Autonomy--and the Nature of Advice
Uniquely conceived and utterly refreshing, Peter Kramer (Listening to Prozac) breaks the mold of most advice books withShould You Leave?Expect no authoritative voice retreating behind labels or manufactured jargon. Instead, in a series of fictive sessions with imaginary advisees, Kramer illlustrates complex problems; each one lets him give a different style of advice--from Freud's to Ann Lander's. The central question pushes the limits of traditional "silent therapy": can a direct, simple response to any problem of the heart be valuable?Should You Leave?moves fluidly between discussions of psychological theory and imaginative flights, revealing both a wide body of knowledge and compassion. Kramer's questions, framed with sensitivityandirreverence, challenge our cultural fixation on autonomy and assertiveness. Given these, how can intimacy thrive?--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.