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“dr paul c vitz”

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  • Faith of the Fatherless

    The Psychology of Atheism

    by Dr. Paul C. Vitz ...
    In this updated, expanded edition, starting with Freud's "projection theory" of religion - that belief in God is merely a product of man's desire for security - Professor Vitz argues that psychoanalysis actually provides a more satisfying explanation for atheism. Disappointment in one's earthly father, whether through death, absence, or mistreatment, frequently leads to a rejection of God.A ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Radical Claims in Freudian Psychoanalysis

    Point/Counterpoint

    by Joel Kupfersmid, Rosemary Sand, Paul Vitz, Grant Gillett, Edwin Erwin, Douglass Kirsner, Dr. Michael Michael, M. Andrew Holowchak, John Cottingham, Michael Lavin, Adolf Grünbaum, Andreas De Block ...
    Radical Claims in Freudian Psychoanalysis: Point/Counterpoint, edited by M. Andrew Holowchak, features pro and con essays on some of the most extreme Freudian claims, including the Freudian unconscious and the Oedipus complex. Holowchak collects the writings of critical scholars in the fields of psychology and philosophy who have distinguished themselves in the area through prior publications.This ... Read more

    $137.99 CAD

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  • The Shipwrecked Mind

    On Political Reaction

    by Mark Lilla ...
    Covering centuries of thought and politics, this collection of essays “offers a fascinating framework for making sense of our contemporary political landscape” (Vox).“Skillfully untangles the apocalyptic ‘mytho-histories,’ ‘just-so narratives,’ and ‘political bedtime stories’ favored by the modern right, in Europe and America.” —The New YorkerWe don’t understand the reactionary mind. In this ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology

    by Rollo May ...
    Rollo May draws on the insights of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, and other great thinkers to offer a helpful roadmap of the ideas and techniques of existential psychotherapy.He pays particular attention to the causes of loneliness and isolation, and to our search for stability in an age of anxiety. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Spinoza

    Freedom's Messiah

    by Ian Buruma ...
    Series series Jewish Lives
    Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own timeBaruch (Benedictus) Spinoza (1632–1677) was a radical free thinker who led a life guided by strong moral principles despite his disbelief in an all-seeing God. Seen by many—Christians as well as Jews—as Satan’s disciple during his lifetime, ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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  • This Incredible Need to Believe

    by Julia Kristeva ...
    Translated by Beverley Bie Brahic ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    "Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics, that the history of Christianity prepared the world for humanism."So writes Julia Kristeva in this provocative work, which skillfully upends our entrenched ideas about religion, belief, and the thought ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Reading Freud

    A Chronological Exploration of Freud's Writings

    by Jean-Michel Quinodoz ...
    Series series New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching Series
    Winner of the 2010 Sigourney Award!Reading Freud provides an accessible outline of the whole of Freud's work from Studies in Hysteria through to An Outline of Psycho-Analysis. It succeeds in expressing even the most complex of Freud's theories in clear and simple language whilst avoiding over-simplification.Each chapter concentrates on an individual text and includes valuable background ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The Twilight of Atheism

    The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World

    by Alister McGrath ...
    In this bold and provocative new book, the author of In the Beginning and The Reenchantment of Nature challenges the widely held assumption that the world is becoming more secular and demonstrates why atheism cannot provide the moral and intellectual guidance essential for coping with the complexities of modern life.Atheism is one of the most important movements in modern Western culture. For the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Dictionary of Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling

    by Emmy van Deurzen, Raymond Kenward ...
    The Dictionary of Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling is a comprehensive lexicon of existential terms, their meaning and application. With over 350 entries(cross-referenced throughout), the book is the ideal companion to studying the the ideas of existential pioneers, such as Kierkegaard, Heidegger and Sartre.Drawing on their experience as existential practitioners, Emmy van Deurzen and ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • The Age of Atheists

    How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God

    by Peter Watson ...
    **A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014From one of England’s most distinguished intellectual historians comes “an exhilarating ride…that will stand the test of time as a masterful account of” (The Boston Globe) one of the West’s most important intellectual movements: Atheism.**In 1882, Friedrich Nietzche declared that “God is dead” and ever since tens of thousands of brilliant, courageous, ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Trauma and Human Existence

    Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections

    by Robert D. Stolorow ...
    Series series Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series
    Trauma and Human Existence effectively interweaves two themes central to emotional trauma - the first pertains to the contextuality of emotional life in general, and of the experience of emotional trauma in particular, and the second pertains to the recognition that the possibility of emotional trauma is built into the basic constitution of human existence.This volume traces how both themes ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Histories and Fallacies: Problems Faced in the Writing of History

    Problems Faced in the Writing of History

    by Carl R. Trueman ...
    How do we know the stories told by historians are true? To what extent can we rely on their interpretations of the past?Histories and Fallacies is a primer on the conceptual and methodological problems in the discipline of history. Historian Carl Trueman presents a series of classic historical problems as a way to examine what history is, what it means, and how it can be told and understood. Each ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD