{"product_id":"the-birth-of-pleasure","title":"The Birth of Pleasure","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe author of the classic \u003ci\u003eIn a Different Voice\u003c\/i\u003e offers a brilliant, provocative book about love that has powerful implications for the way we live and love today. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Compelling ... A thrilling new paradigm.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarol Gilligan, whose \u003ci\u003eIn a Different Voice\u003c\/i\u003e revolutionized the study of human psychology, now asks: Why is love so often associated with tragedy? Why are our experiences of pleasure so often shadowed by loss? And can we change these patterns? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gilligan observes children at play and adult couples in therapy and discovers that the roots of a more hopeful view of love are all around us. She finds evidence in new psychological research and traces a path leading from the myth of Psyche and Cupid through Shakespeare's plays and Freud's case histories, to Anne Frank's diaries and contemporary novels.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833702789325,"sku":"9780679759430","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_f076c4a4-4a09-4b7f-900a-b0e8183c38cc.jpg?v=1790894417","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/the-birth-of-pleasure","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}