The Unconscious

Bob's first Pendle Hill pamphlet, Psychotherapy Based on Human Longing, was published in 1960. Because thirty-five years ago longing had not been widely recognized as a basic human drive, the pamphlet met an unarticulated need in psychotherapists and psychiatrists countrywide.

Since that time psychotherapy, largely in the hands of non-medical practitioners, has become strongly based on human longing, while more orthodox psychiatry, with its explosion of new research findings in neurobiology...