On Being Normal and Other Disorders by Paul Verhaeghe

On Being Normal and Other Disorders by Paul Verhaeghe

The central argument of On Being Normal and Other Disorders is that psychic identity is acquired through one's primary intersubjective relationships. Thus, the diagnosis of potential pathologies must also be founded on this relation. Given that the efficacy of all forms of treatment depends upon the therapeutic relation, a diagnostic of

Clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Paul Verhaeghe is the chairman of the University of Ghent's psychoanalytical department. He achieved international prominence as a Freud and Lacan specialist with his books Between Hysteria and Woman (1996) and On Being Normal and Other Diseases (2002). In Love in a Time of Loneliness (1998, revised 2011) and The End of Psychotherapy (2009), he gained a wide readership, while The Impacts on Identity of a Neoliberal Meritocracy got him a prize from Liberales for the best article of 2011. The Goethe Prize was given to the American edition of On Being Normal and Other Diseases (2002).