Böcker av Uri Wernik

Friedrich Nietzsche declared himself to be ';a psychologist who has not his peer.' Nietzschean Psychology and Psychotherapy: The New Doctors of the Soul illustrates why he was correct and indicates that he was also a soul doctor ';who has not his peer.' He is usually unknown to psychologists and treated by philosophers as if he was a philosopher who, as such, wrote about some issues relating to the philosophy of mind. This book acquaints psychologists with Nietzsche and introduces him to philosophers in a new light. It presents Nietzsche's contributions to psychology, wisdom of life, and psychotherapy dispersed throughout his writings. It hails him the ';Overturner,' demonstrating how he overturned many of our notions about love, crime, happiness, morality, language, consciousness, logic, memory, emotions, happiness, and self-actualizing. He is portrayed as the precursor and champion of action-, chance-, and acceptance-oriented self-help and therapy, far from being, as is often claimed, a proponent of depth-, dynamic- or insight-oriented psychotherapy.

Throughout history, in times of economic or political uncertainty, people have called on Lady Luck for help. This book shows how to let chance and chance-inspired action work for us. In addition, this book shows how the process of change can stop becoming a chore and become, instead, a playful experience.

Throughout history, in times of economic or political uncertainty, people have called on Lady Luck for help. The book starts with the 'paradox of change': the difficulty of changing things that seem to depend on us. It suggests that chance plays an important role in the creation of problems and that we should accordingly use it to solve them.