Allen Wheelis, Author . Norton $23.95 (141p) ISBN 978-0-393-06214-4
Eminent psychoanalyst and philosopher Wheelis (How People Change
) draws on his long life's central passions in this poetic meditation aimed at replacing our self-deception ("laid on from school and pulpit and lectern and TV and Internet"
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Allen Wheelis, Author W. W. Norton & Company $14.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-393-02425-8
This slender volume is not so much a novel as a staged presentation designed to examine the psychodynamics of romantic love. Written by a San Francisco analyst, it suggests that romantic desire is inspired by a need to recapture through another some
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Allen Wheelis, Author W. W. Norton & Company $17.95 (123p) ISBN 978-0-393-02831-7
Sounding like a cross between Machiavelli and Alfred Adler, San Francisco psychoanalyst Wheeler sees the will to power as all-pervasive. Anything altruistic--love, charity, self-sacrifice--is just another mask of power, he contends. Fear and...
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Allen Wheelis, Author W. W. Norton & Company $17.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-393-03067-9
From the nursing home bed where his mother lay dying at the age of 100, San Francisco psychiatrist Wheelis ( The Path Not Taken ) looks back over the intense and, for him, often painful relationship they shared for his more than 70 years. Recalling...
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Allen Wheelis, Author, Wheelis, Author W. W. Norton & Company $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-393-04783-7
Brooding yet illuminating, this memoir reveals the struggle of a psychoanalyst practicing in San Francisco to reach a deeper understanding of the effect of childhood trauma on his own life. Having grown up in rural Texas with a cruel, consumptive...
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Allen Wheelis, Author, Jeff Putnam, Editor Baskerville Publishers $18 (181p) ISBN 978-1-880909-14-0
Wheelis, a psychoanalyst and novelist ( The Desert ), has here produced a seductive novel of ideas, a full-bodied May-September love story and a probing study of charismatic power. Trim, silver-haired Julian, a retired biochemistry professor, at age
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