Anthony Storr, Author Ballantine Books $12.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-345-35847-9
Taking Goya, Kafka, Trollope, Kant and others as examples, the author links the capacity to be alone with self-discovery and becoming aware of one's deepest needs and feelings. ``Storr's celebration of creative solitude is a counterbalance to the...
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Anthony Storr, Author Ballantine Books $10 (180p) ISBN 978-0-345-37585-8
This first book by the author of Solitude has been long out of print. Examining the basic assumptions of his profession, psychotherapist Storr argues that the essential goal of man is self-realization, the drive toward maturity that is inextricably...
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Anthony Storr, Author Free Press $27.95 (212p) ISBN 978-0-02-931621-4
Rejecting the Freudian notion that music is a form of infantile escapism, British psychologist Storr ( Solitude ) argues that music originates from the human brain, promotes order within the mind, exalts life and gives it meaning. In an engaging...
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Anthony Storr, Author Free Press $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-684-82818-3
""The wisest men follow their own direction and listen to no prophet guiding them,"" wrote Euripedes. Storr (Music and the Mind), a psychiatrist, uses this ancient caution as the epigraph to a fascinating yet frustrating investigation into the...
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Anthony Storr, Author Free Press $27.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-02-931620-7
Storr's celebration of creative solitude is a counterbalance to the chorus of self-help books extollng interpersonal relationships. This British psychotherapist links the capacity to be alone with self-discovery and becoming aware of one's deepest...
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Anthony Storr, Author Grove Press $19.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1052-7
In this collection of mini-psycho-biographies, Storr contends that Winston Churchill's brave defiance of Hitler's onslaughter owed much to another battle the politician wagedhis lifelong bout with depression, which Churchill nicknamed ``Black Dog.''
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Anthony Storr, Author Grove/Atlantic $18.95 (183p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1179-1
British psychiatrist Storr brings a cool, clinical approach to this analysis of murderers, rapists, sadomasochists and child abusers. Arguing that aggressive personality disorders have multiple causes--broken homes, cruel parents, disturbed brain...
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