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Title: a poorly written pomposity
Review: i read this book two decades ago in preparation for my graduate studies in psychology. i thoroughly disliked it at the time for its digressive, repetitious and fatuous style. i have never read a book before or since that was written with its particular combination of hysterical imagination and obsessive compulsive hairsplitting. impulsive personalities will gnash their teeth in anguish. and after i had the peculiar annoyance of reading this book -- something so awful i can vividly remember it twenty years later -- the whole subjective and flimsy concept of "neurosis" was swept out of the professional clinical nomenclature, which therefore makes dr. shapiro's wearying little compendium of clinical anecdotes digressive, repetitious, fatuous and irrelevant. "neurotic styles" is an anachronism alongside the bathetic science fiction of sigmund freud ... but at least freud knew how to write.
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