Advice Failure, First Edition (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First U.k. Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 286. Original publishers blue cloth, lettered gilt on spine. Some lightly penciled easily erasable notes on front endpaper and a few pages in the text, otherwise very good in somewhat used and creased, very good minus dust jacket, with some rubbing at spine and corners.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition 1st Printing. Previous Owner Markings (Name Neatly Inked in Blue to First Page of Front Matter); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. THE DECADE'S MOST PERSONAL BESTSELLER. BOOK NUMBER: 0026. CONTENTS: Introduction; PART I. TO KNOW - 1. The Wellsprings of Behavior 2. The Initial Experience 3. The Persistence of the Past 4. Tracks in the Cloud Chamber 5. The Preservation of Insight; PART II. TO BE - 6. To Change and To Be 7. The Search for the Mother 8. You Always Learn to Swim in the Winter 9. The Good Fictions; PART III. TO ACT - 10. Have You Heard of Love? 11. Calling the Role 12. The Marriage of Love and Marriage 13. The Beginning, the End 14. And The Middle 15. The Simple Desire 16. Confirmation and Affirmation. SYNOPSIS: You Are The Most Important Person In Your Life. This is the most extraordinary book you've ever read, about the most extraordinary person you'll ever know-yourself. In ADVICE FROM A FAILURE you will learn: Why you love the person you do; How to get along with difficult people; How to stop being a prisoner of past mistakes; How to deal effectively with depression; How to achieve maximum pleasure in sex; What the "real" reasons behind your money problems are, and how to cope with them; How to be at ease with strangers; How to re-examine and improve your own family relations; How childhood experience has shaped your life and what you can do about it now; How to stop suing for acceptance-and thereby get it; How to recognize and understand love similarities; When to be aggressive; How to stop bribing others with bits and pieces of yourself; When love must be allowed to die; Why you express and suppress certain emotions; How to transform self-defeating behavior into self-confidence; PLUS MANY, MANY MORE PRACTICAL INSIGHTS INTO LOVE, MARRIAGE, DIVORCE, IDENTITY AND SEX THAT WILL BENEFIT YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. Jo Coudert is an American Simone de Beauvoir and her book is a brilliant, quotable exposition on loving, hating and living in contemporary society. An editor of The International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, Miss Coudert is also a gifted writer with a special talent for presenting complex personal material in a strikingly down-to-earth way, as evidenced by Advice From a Failure-a unique and enriching book that you will find yourself reading and re-reading time and again. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.