Cherishment: A Psychology of the Heart - Paperback

by Elisabeth Young-Bruel (Author), Faith Bethelard (Author)

In Cherishment, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl and Faith Bethelard provide a wholly original way of thinking about familiar concepts such as love, attachment, and care, showing how deep-seated disappointments and fears of dependency keep so many of us from forming healthy relationships

Cherishment narrates a journey of discovery, and any reader on his or her own journey in the realm of the heart will feel cherished by it.

Author Biography

Elisabeth Young-Bruehl was a faculty member at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and a practicing psychoanalyst. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy under Hannah Arendt's supervision at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. She passed away in December 2011 at 65.