Theodore Isaac RubinCritiques

Find your serenity within.

Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin shows how one of the most powerful human emotions can change your life. Suppressed or twisted anger can lead to anxiety, depression, insomnia, psychosomatic illness, alcoholism, frigidity, impotence, and downright misery. But understanding and releasing anger can lead to greater health, happiness, and emotional wholeness.
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I believe I read this because this author wrote "David and Lisa," and "The President's analyst. It hasn't stuck with me except it as entertaining to a small degree.

Amazing book. I absolutely recommend the reading. Very interesting facts about the anger feelings. The best book to abord this topic.

This small book is a peculiar work. Psychoanalyst Theodore Rubin wrote this book to illustrate what he thought that the world of the catatonic mental patient is like. The account is written in the first person -- one is thrust into the mind of the victim and experiences what he does. In the first part of the work, the patient's thoughts are fragmentary and incoherent -- he experiences only sensations and hears snatches of conversation that have no meaning to him. As the patient progresses through treatment, he emerges from his catatonic state to be able to understand, and eventually, to communicate.

Rubin's attempt in this book was ambitious but flawed. As a work of fiction it is not a success, and it certainly is not enjoyable to read -- though that was not the author's intent. Who can say whether the text succeeds at representing the world of the catatonic, since how could Rubin know what they actually felt and thought? In any case, the peek the reader is given into the altered mental states of catatonia may arouse empathy (for those motivated to continue reading it), and no doubt that was the author's goal.½

Terrific book for young adults!