Reviews for How to master your nerves

The average rating for How to master your nerves based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-01-19 00:00:00 Nicholas J Dodds Winnicott's brilliance is matched only by his humility, and for an avowed Freudian, he's strikingly original -- you'll find little real received wisdom here, as he filters his training and mastery of psychoanalytic theory through a deeply personal vision, informed by a diverse and beautifully-vignetted practice. What's most striking is how Winnicott develops Freud's notorious pessimism in the direction of a subversive optimism that regards depression as a manifestation of ego-strength-in-the-making, and juvenile delinquency as an act of "hope." Plus, his pithy humor and unpretentious lyricism makes his rigorous, uncompromising work truly pleasurable to read: perhaps itself a demonstration of his vision, which regards "creative living" as the prime condition of individual (and, by extension, cultural) health. By asking us, as readers, to contain the destabilizing insights here, and reconcile them with the wit and whimsical metaphor, Winnicott offers us a "dry run" of what he sees as our life's goal, as individuals: the achievement of true integration. He's teaching us, through reading, more than we realize.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-06-11 00:00:00 Billy Burton In this book, Winnicott shows the theoria development maturacinal from a particular idea: it is at home that the child's development begins. Some ideas about democracy from their point of view are also presented in this book.