The Ways Of The Will Selected Essays,

The writings of one of the last century's most original commentators on the trials, sorrows, and failings of day-to-day existence, now collected in one volume, and featuring three previously uncollected essays.

Leslie H. Farber was Chairman of the Washington, D.C., School of Psychiatry, Director of Therapy at the Austen Riggs Center, and a psychotherapist in private practice. He was a frequent contributor to Commentary, Times Literary Supplement, Harper's, and other magazines. He died in 1981.

Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

xiii

Robert Boyer

Part I

Lying on the Couch

3

(18)

Schizophrenia and the Mad Psychotherapist

21

(26)

Harry Stack Sullivan and the American Dream

47

(28)

Part II

Thinking About Will

75

(12)

Will and Anxiety

87

(26)

Will and Willfulness in Hysteria

113

(20)

Despair and the Life of Suicide

133

(26)

Part III

He Said, She Said

159

(20)

On Jealousy

179

(26)

I'm Sorry, Dear

205

(28)

Faces of Envy

233

(14)

O Death, Where Is Thy Sting-a-Ling-a-Ling?

247

(26)

Family Reunion

273

(14)

Afterword

287

(16)

Anne Farber

Index

303

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