Ordinary Masochisms Petrus Borel Never before published in book

Never before published in book form

The book is descriptive as well as prescriptive and should find eager readers inside the military (where officers take seriously their professional education and their professional reading lists) as well as outside

A critical analysis of films such as The Ballad of Little Jo

focus groups & ethnography New to the 2nd edition: The role of digital tools and social media

Empathy in Psychotherapy: How Therapists and Clients Understand Each Other

Ordinary Masochisms Petrus Borel Never before published in bookOrdinary Masochisms reveals how literary works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries frequently challenged the prevailing view of masochism as a deviant behavior, an opinion supported by many sexologists and psychoanalysts in the 1800s. In these texts, Jennifer Mitchell highlights everyday examples of characters deriving pleasure from pain in encounters and emotions such as flirtations, courtships, betrothals, lesbian desires, religious zeal,