Based partly on psychoanalytic theory, this text analyzes how people use a variety of tactics to avoid intimacy and real altruism both in formal and informal relationships.
Exploration of psychodynamic strategies unconsciously enacted to spare imagined pain and frustration of authentic encounters. Everyone is forced at moments of... Læs mere
Self Defense in a Narcissistic World explores in depth a new, basically unrecognized and highly prevalent everyday... Læs mere
The Incredible Shrinking Mind not only offers a provocative and entertaining critique, but also a profound and practical... Læs mere
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Patient, the first book of non-fiction written by Gerald Alper, is also the first serious attempt to explore in depth the dynamics of the yet-to-be recognized, unfulfilled and usually perplexed fledgling artist.