David Brazier

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My next book is Love and Its Disappointment: The meaning of life, therapy and art. O-Books Auguat 2009. "Love and Its Disappointment: The meaning of life, therapy and art" has been found to be lucid and helpful and has excellent endorsements: "compelling..., power house..., brilliant..., convincing..., nourishing..., enlightening..., wise..., insightful..., compassionate... For flyer, please scroll down. ENDORSEMENTS AND REVIEWS: Julia Samuel, Metanoia Institute Tutor, Honorary Fellow of Imperial College: A compelling book, like a power house of thought that has been building up over a long time and successfully found its voice, as it pulled me the reader along. The clarity of the author's thought is rare indeed. His overall thesis that as loving beings we are inevitably thwarted, and how art and therapy can inform, help and occasionally heal us finds a way of saying what I have felt for a long time. His skill at drawing on other theorists, writers, philosophers, and his own thinking and integrating it into one clear treatise is brilliant. The risk he takes in standing up and banging the drum for love as the main motivation in man is convincing and lays bare our defences against it, and of course its frustration. Robert Wicks, Author of Riding the Dragon (Sorin Books) and The Resilient Clinician (Oxford University Press). Catholic. Professor, Loyola University Maryland: In Love and Disappointment David Brazier calls us to see what is at the core of life in refreshing, vitaliz

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