Can Love Last?

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Conventional wisdom has it that love is fr agi le. leading psychoanalyst stephen a. mitchell argues that románcé doesn't actually fade away in long-term relationships—it becomes increasingly dangerous. Drawing on more than thirty years of clinical experience and on his deep knowledge of popular culture, Mitchell shows that love can endure, if we become aware of our self-destructive efforts to protect oui-selves from its risks.
"Mitchell's effort to show why personal románcé is larger than itself, hard-won, and worth it, offers ground for hope." —Catherine Tumber, Boston Phoenix
"Stephen Mitchell's Can Love Last?is a godsend. For those in relationships, he shows how not to squeeze the life out of love; for those without, he kindles new hope for the heart." —Mark Epstein, M.D., author of Thoughts Wilhout a Thinker
"A beautiful and brilliant reexamination of love and its perils."
—Barbara Fisher, Boston Globe
"Cheerful, open, and humane Mitchell reminds us that psychoanlysis... Tovább

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Conventional wisdom has it that love is fr agi le. leading psychoanalyst stephen a. mitchell argues that románcé doesn't actually fade away in long-term relationships—it becomes increasingly dangerous. Drawing on more than thirty years of clinical experience and on his deep knowledge of popular culture, Mitchell shows that love can endure, if we become aware of our self-destructive efforts to protect oui-selves from its risks.
"Mitchell's effort to show why personal románcé is larger than itself, hard-won, and worth it, offers ground for hope." —Catherine Tumber, Boston Phoenix
"Stephen Mitchell's Can Love Last?is a godsend. For those in relationships, he shows how not to squeeze the life out of love; for those without, he kindles new hope for the heart." —Mark Epstein, M.D., author of Thoughts Wilhout a Thinker
"A beautiful and brilliant reexamination of love and its perils."
—Barbara Fisher, Boston Globe
"Cheerful, open, and humane Mitchell reminds us that psychoanlysis is at heart a hopeful profession." —Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review
A leading psychoanalytic theorist, STEPHEN A. MITCHELL was the first president of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis. He was alsó the founding editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, which Newsweek credited for the recent revival of American psychoanalysis, and the author of many seminal works, among them Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis, Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis, and Freud and Beyond. Vissza