Lori B. (pdocgirl) reviewed Promises, Promises: Essays on Poetry and Psychoanalysis on + 211 more book reviews
Okay, if you've read Freud deeper than the Interpretation of Dreams and you know who Winnicott and Melanie Klein and Fritz Wittels are, you will love this book. I bought it on a whim, thinking I would expand my horizons...but I'm a CBT therapist. It's well-written and often witty, but you need to be versed in the history of psychoanalysis to appreciate it fully. I finally decided it was something I was never going to read twice. Someone else will appreciate it more than I did. I still have to give it 5 stars for the excellent writing, it's just the other side of the world for me!
