Granta 71: Shrinks

By Ian Jack and Granta: The Magazine of New Writing

Book Overview

The talking-cure, otherwise known as analysis or therapy. Invented in Vienna, c. 1866. Most celebrated exponents: Sigmund Freud, Jerry Springer. Favorite question: Can you tell me a little more about that? Diseases normally addressed: unhappiness, personal torment. Efficacy: contested. Effect on the written word: vast.This issue of Granta is devoted to the kinks and twists of the human mind, and their treatments. With Paul Auster, Amit Chaudhuri, Fergus Fleming, Judith Hermann, Ian Parker, Tim Parks, Elliot Perlman, Justine Picardie, and Edmund White among the contributors.Plus Roy Hattersley on his search for the answer to all our problems -- the Third Way; and Antony Gormley's bodies photographed by Gautier Deblonde.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1929001010
• ISBN13: 9781929001019
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"