Psychotherapy's influence seems all-pervasive today. But to what end? Is helping people really therapy's main mission?
In 'The Mirror And The Hammer', Ernesto Spinelli challenges psychotherapy by asking if it has retreated from its early promise of being a pivotal agent in our attempts to discover what it means to be human, in exchange for its current role as a pacifier of personal and social unease.
Throughout this provocative and engaging book Spinelli explores the alternatives to psychotherapeutic orthodoxies on such vital issues as sexuality; the erosion of childhood; the self; the unconscious; creativity; and the dilemma of evil.
