Authority of Tenderness

<p>This insightful and beautifully written work explores nonlinear processes of recovery of the loss of Self. The inherent healing power of hard-earned wholehearted self-acceptance is conceived through the authority of tenderness. </p><p>The book is the final volume in <i>The Fifth Principle</i> trilogy (the second book being <i>Scum</i>) which chronicled through the course of one boy’s lifetime the methods of a mind which is not a mind in its efforts to prevail under oppressive circumstances. <i>The Authority of Tenderness</i> comes at the end of the journey is written by the adult self of the child and uses poetic vignettes references to foundational psychoanalytic literature and analyses of critical treatment situations to convey the experiences of someone who has been both patient and analyst.</p><p>The book offers a vivid psychotherapeutic perspective for clinicians trainees students and general readers alike.</p>