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This book is so beautifully written! I love when the power of academic social science writing to a large extent rests in the artfulness of the writing. The elegance of the case descriptions, think writing or whatsoever you call the minute attention to detailing the experience of a situation, inviting the reader into the site as a novelist.

I just LOVE that someone in 1990 still could criticize psychology as being the man way of understanding humanity’s place in the world. This just makes me breathe more calmly. We need to get back to this critique of “therapy” on the psychiatrist’s couch as the answer to the loss of meaning. Go out in the world rather than in….