Friends and Enemies: Our Need to Love and Hate - Softcover

Rowe, Dorothy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006530583 ISBN 13: 9780006530589

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2001

Synopsis

One of our most admired and loved psychologists turns her attention to the essence of the good relationship, and why we need enemies as well as friends.

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Review:

‘There is a wealth of thought provoking material in this bok... every page triggered for me flashes of recognition’
Val Hennessy, Daily Mail

From the Back Cover:

One of our most admired and loved psychologists turns her attention to the essence of the good relationships, and why we need enemies as well as friends.

The desire for friendship is fundamental to everyone – without friendship no amount of wealth, fame, power or achievement will bring us happiness. Yet, if human beings crave good relationships, they also need bad ones. In imagining we have enemies we at least have the comfort of knowing that someone, somewhere, is thinking of us.

By delving into what it is that makes us hate as well as what makes us love, Dorothy Rowe addresses fundamental issues of human behaviour, and shows not only what friendship is but how it can be learned as a skill.

Dorothy Rowe is full of robust good sense, rare intuitive wisdom and unhurried sensitivity. She pursues meaning, self-knowledge and understanding with patient ferocity. She is a giver of courage."
NIGELLA LAWSON

"Dorothy Rowe is that rarest of creatures – an intellectual who not only possesses a profound wisdom about the way people are but is also superb at communicating that wisdom. She expresses life-changing ideas with magnificent clarity. I have read all her books at least twice, and I recommend you do the same."
Tim Lott

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0006530583
• ISBN 13: 9780006530589
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 560