Journal of a Psychoanalysis

by Paul Diel

Overview

From the introduction by Paul Diel: "This personal diary of a psychoanalytic patient illustrates a method of healing which, unlike retrospection and pansexuality, is based on the study of inner motivations... Considering that the search for truth, especially the truth about oneself, is a need common to all human beings and one which runs deeper than the need for camouflage, I felt it might be useful to publish this document. This diary, but documenting the author's progress, may help the watchful reader recognize himself and encourage him in the secret battle being waged within his own mind."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781570629396
Publisher:	Shambhala
Publication date:	06/12/2001
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Paul Diel (1893-1972) was a French psychologist of Austrian origins. Building on the work of Freud, Adler, and Jung, he developed an original technique of introspection and analysis designed to expose the secret inner motivations that influence behavior. His contemporaries, notably Albert Einstein, recognized him for his penetrating moral vision as well as his scientific rigor. In France, a group of physicians, psychologists, and educators--called the Association de la Psychologie de la Motivation--is devoted to the study and transmission of Diel's work.

Other books by Paul Diel in English translation are The Psychology of Motivation, Symbolism in Greek Mythology, and The God-Symbol.

Editorial Reviews

For this Austrian-born French psychologist, warped motivations shaped by an individual's striving for status, money and power are at the heart of neurosis. Mentally unhealthy people, according to Diel (1893-1972), thinly conceal a tangle of resentments that surface in grudges, self-pity, triumphant stances, obsessions, daydreams, excessive hates. The road to cure lies in seeing through society's false values and understanding the source of one's low self-esteem. The diary reproduced here was kept by a 40-year-old patient of Diel. This man came to see his conflicts with co-workers, failure in business and sexual adventures as the result of his feelings of worthlessness. Diel's commentary illuminates the journal entries. A psychologist who insisted that adjusting to a sick society does not make one well, Diel is a relevant thinker for our time. (December)

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