Reconciliations

by Theodore Isaac Rubin

A psychiatrist inquires into our highpressure society and offers a philosophy for mending and integrating conflicts, increasing insight, humility and humanity, and achieving inner peace

260 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1982

About the author

Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D., has served as president of the American Institute of Psychoanalysis and is the author of thirty books, including The Angry Book, Lisa and David, Jordi, The Winner's Notebook, and Lisa and David Today. His books have been translated all over the world. He lives and practices psychiatry in New York City.

Reviews

[Jeff Cliff · Rating 1 out of 5]

Seems to be a whole worldview built on the idea of not winning, no thank you. There's one or two paragraphs of mediocre/good advice in this book. The rest is what happens when you can talk without anyone being able to put a [[citation needed]] on anything - useless, mostly incorrect conjecture without any reason for the reader to believe any of it. Maybe he's better than the garbage that came before him, but he's still mostly barking up an imaginary tree pathologizing practically everything that he doesn't agree with for no good reason.

That said I bet he/his son would have been interesting to have a beer with. Smart guy, seems to know a fair bit, just...not the kind of advice that is useful to anyone.

If you want to save yourself the 250+ pages of this book just go and get yourself a joint, get really baked and chill out looking through a telescope at the stars or something. Just be mellow, maaaaan