Churchill's Black Dog - Softcover

Storr, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006375669 ISBN 13: 9780006375661

Publisher: Fontana Harpercollins, 1997

Synopsis

A collection of essays from one of England's distinguished psychiatrists. Its theme is creativity. What internal dynamic forces artists, scientists and politicians to devote so much time and energy to creative invention? It examines the impulses which drove such figures as Churchill and Newton.

About this title

From the Publisher:

'Hughly readable and thoughful' - Anthony Clare, Sunday Times

About the Author:

ANTHONY STORR was born in 192o and educated at Winchester, Christ's College, Cambridge, and at Westminster Hospital. He qualified as a doctor in 1944, and subsequently specialized in. psychiatry. His other publications include The Integrity of the Personality (1960) Human Destructiveness (1972), Jung (1973), The Dynamics of Creation (1972), The Art of Psychotherapy (1979), Solitude (1988), Freud (1989), Music and the Mind (1992) and Feet of Clay (1996). He has contributed reviews and articles to many papers, including the Sunday Times, the Times Literary Supplement and the Independent. Dr Storr is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is also Honorary Consulting Psychiatrist to the Oxfordshire Health Authority, and an Emeritus Fellow of Green College, Oxford.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fontana Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0006375669
• ISBN 13: 9780006375661
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320