Publisher's Synopsis
Rene Muller, a psychotherapist whose writing is primarily aimed at understanding mental illness from the perspective of existential phenomenology, explores the notion of "self" that Western thinkers use in their attempts to understand human experience. He shows how the self can be created and lost - and made marginal - in all that we do, particularly in love and work. The final chapter of this study, first published in 1987 and now reissued, points towards the potential for greater authenticity, integrity, and self-understanding.
