What about Me? by Paul Verhaeghe
In *What about Me?*, Verhaeghe shows the profound impact that social change is having on mental health, even affecting the nature of the disorders from which we suffer.‘A remarkable book … What About Me? The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society is one of those books that, by making connections between apparently distinct phenomena, permits sudden new insights into what is happening to us and why’
-- George Monbiot * The Guardian *‘Paul Verhaeghe brilliantly captures the long-term impact that living in a profit-obsessed society has had on our psychology. An excellent book.’
-- Hanif Kureishi‘[An] intriguing study of modern identity.’
* Canberra Times *‘This book begins quietly and slowly builds in power and eloquence as it illuminates the impact of the past 30 years of neo-liberal ideology on our sense of identity.’ PICK OF THE WEEK
-- Cameron Woodhead * The Age *
Clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Paul Verhaeghe is head of the psychoanalytical department at the University of Ghent. With his books Between Hysteria and Woman (1996) and On Being Normal and Other Disorders (2002) he gained international recognition as an expert on Freud and Lacan. He acquired a broad readership with Love in a Time of Loneliness (1998, updated 2011) and The End of Psychotherapy (2009), while The Effects on Identity of a Neoliberal Meritocracy won him a prize for the best essay of 2011 from Liberales. The American edition of On Being Normal and Other Disorders (2002) was awarded the Goethe Prize. His latest work What About Me? The struggle for identity in a market-based society was published in German, English, Chinese, Korean and Slovenian. Jane Hedley-Prôle studied German and Dutch at the University of Liverpool, after which she settled in the Netherlands. Alongside her job at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs she works as a freelance translator. Since her accreditation as a literary translator by the Dutch Foundation for Literature she has translated Diaghilev; A Life by Sjeng Scheijen (together with S.J. Leinbach), The Fetish Room by Rudi Rotthier, We Are Our Brains by Dick Swaab and many short stories for the Citybooks initiative by the Flemish-Dutch publishers deBuren.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781922247377 |
| ISBN 10 | 1922247375 |
| Title | What about Me? |
| Author | Paul Verhaeghe |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Scribe Publications |
| Year published | 2014-08-14 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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