Becoming William James

Becoming William James by Feinstein, Howard. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780801486425.

For William James, work was the problem. Ultimately, going to work was the resolution, and Jamess quest for meaningful work remains as relevant at the end of the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth. Weaving letters, diaries, drawings, and published texts, Becoming William James provides a convincing biographical analysis rich in detail and tone. In his new introduction, Howard M. Feinstein adds biological psychiatry to psychoanalytic and family systems theories to inform our understanding of a complex man. In addition, he discusses whether Jamess mental illness might have been treated with drugs.