Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas

Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas

The classic compilation of psychological case studies from a master clinician and lyrical writer.

Each generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers like Deborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy an…

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