While written for mental health professionals, this book is so ground-breaking, I recommend it for the general reader as well. The book offers a new approach to the human mind and psychoanalysis that is far more convincing and relevant than existing psychoanalytic ideas. It explodes myth after myth and brings a refreshing focus on the effects of reality--of actual traumas--on emotional life. It also confronts us with an essential but neglected truth: Death and death anxieties--it identifies three forms--are the root causes of and drive both human creativity and human emotional ills. The book, which is Langs' 44th, hits home in many ways and is a revelation when it comes to undertstadning our personal woes as well as any kind of psychotherapy you may be or may have experienced--there are no white-washes here. Life is tough, this book hits hard, but it offers many new insights and resources with which to deal with those tough moments. If you want something truly original that tells you a lot about what you don't know about yourself, this is the book for you. Where else can you find a chapter entitled: 'Love is the Puppet, Death the Puppeteer'?