Literature And Therapy

Author : Liz Burns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429901492

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Literature and Therapy by Liz Burns Pdf

Literature and Therapy: A Systemic View is an invitation to the world of literature, drawing us into the creative and imaginative spaces which lie between readers and their choice of novels, plays and poems. In this world, the fundamental importance of emotion and intuition is recognised, as is the power of literature to promote transformations of meaning in every day life and in therapeutic practice. Its potential to contribute depth and diversity to therapists' personal/professional development is explored via literary reflections and qualitative research findings. The author defines the terms literature and therapy broadly, emphasising their mutual relevance in contemporary and historical contexts, acknowledging the richness of literary resources and signposting accessible routes to their use in clinical practice. A systemic view, highlighting relationships, calls to the reader to explore both therapy and literature with fresh eyes, newly motivated thoughts and a lightening heart.

Author : Kelda Green
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785273827

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Rethinking Therapeutic Reading by Kelda Green Pdf

‘Rethinking Therapeutic Reading’ uses a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology to examine the ways in which literature can create therapeutic spaces for personal thinking. It reconsiders the role that serious literary reading might play in the real world, reclaiming literature as a vital tool for dealing with human troubles.

Author : Jules Evans
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781608682300

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Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations by Jules Evans Pdf

When philosophy rescued him from an emotional crisis, Jules Evans became fascinated by how ideas invented over two thousand years ago can help us today. He interviewed soldiers, psychologists, gangsters, astronauts, and anarchists and discovered the ways that people are using philosophy now to build better lives. Ancient philosophy has inspired modern communities — Socratic cafés, Stoic armies, Epicurean communes — and even whole nations in the quest for the good life. This book is an invitation to a dream school with a rowdy faculty that includes twelve of the greatest philosophers from the ancient world, sharing their lessons on happiness, resilience, and much more. Lively and inspiring, this is philosophy for the street, for the workplace, for the battlefield, for love, for life.

Author : Timothy Aubry
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587299568

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Reading as Therapy by Timothy Aubry Pdf

Why do Americans read contemporary fiction? This question seems simple, but is it? Do Americans read for the purpose of aesthetic appreciation? To satisfy their own insatiable intellectual curiosities? While other forms of media have come to monopolize consumers’ leisure time, in the past two decades book clubs have proliferated, Amazon has sponsored thriving online discussions, Oprah Winfrey has inspired millions of viewers to read both contemporary works and classics, and novels have retained their devoted following within middlebrow communities. In Reading as Therapy, Timothy Aubry argues that contemporary fiction serves primarily as a therapeutic tool for lonely, dissatisfied middle-class American readers, one that validates their own private dysfunctions while supporting elusive communities of strangers unified by shared feelings. Aubry persuasively makes the case that contemporary literature’s persistent appeal depends upon its capacity to perform a therapeutic function. Aubry traces the growth and proliferation of psychological concepts focused on the subjective interior within mainstream, middle-class society and the impact this has had on contemporary fiction. The prevailing tendency among academic critics has been to decry the personal emphasis of contemporary fiction as complicit with the rise of a narcissistic culture, the ascendency of liberal individualism, and the breakdown of public life. Reading as Therapy, by contrast, underscores the varied ideological effects that therapeutic culture can foster. To uncover the many unpredictable ways in which contemporary literature answers the psychological needs of its readers, Aubry considers several different venues of reader-response—including Oprah’s Book Club and Amazon customer reviews—the promotional strategies of publishing houses, and a variety of contemporary texts, ranging from Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner to Anita Shreve’s The Pilot’s Wife to David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. He concludes that, in the face of an atomistic social landscape, contemporary fiction gives readers a therapeutic vocabulary that both reinforces the private sphere and creates surprising forms of sympathy and solidarity among strangers.

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446496671

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Therapy by David Lodge Pdf

A successful sitcom writer with plenty of money, a stable marraige, a platonic mistress and a flash car, Laurence 'Tubby' Passmore has more reason than most to be happy. Yet neither physiotherapy nor aromatherapy, cognitive-behaviour therapy or acupuncture can cure his puzzling knee pain or his equally inexplicable mid-life angst. As Tubby's life fragments under the weight of his self-obsession, he embarks - via Kierkegaard, strange beds from Rummidge to Tenerife to Beverly Hills, a fit of literary integrity and memories of his 1950s South London boyhood - on a picaresque quest for his lost contentment.

Author : Judith Viorst
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781416985952

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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst Pdf

Recounts the events of a day when everything goes wrong for Alexander. Suggested level: junior, primary.

Author : Rhea Joyce Rubin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Bibliotherapists
ISBN : UOM:39015002437054

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Using Bibliotherapy by Rhea Joyce Rubin Pdf

Author : Sigrid Nunez
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593191439

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What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez Pdf

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY NPR, PEOPLE, AND O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS’ TOP BOOK OF 2020 NATIONAL BESTSELLER “As good as The Friend, if not better.” —The New York Times “Impossible to put down . . . leavened with wit and tenderness.” —People “I was dazed by the novel’s grace.” —The New Yorker The New York Times–bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend brings her singular voice to a story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of companionship A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their experiences. The narrator orchestrates this chorus of voices for the most part as a passive listener, until one of them makes an extraordinary request, drawing her into an intense and transformative experience of her own. In What Are You Going Through, Nunez brings wisdom, humor, and insight to a novel about human connection and the changing nature of relationships in our times. A surprising story about empathy and the unusual ways one person can help another through hardship, her book offers a moving and provocative portrait of the way we live now.

Author : Catherine Gildiner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780735236974

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Good Morning, Monster by Catherine Gildiner Pdf

A therapist creates moving portraits of five of her most memorable patients, men and women she considers psychological heroes. Catherine Gildiner is a bestselling memoirist, a novelist, and a psychologist in private practice for twenty-five years. In Good Morning, Monster, she focuses on five patients who overcame enormous trauma--people she considers heroes. With a novelist's storytelling gift, Gildiner recounts the details of their struggles, their paths to recovery, and her own tale of growth as a therapist. The five cases include a successful but lonely musician suffering sexual dysfunction; a young woman whose father abandoned her and her siblings in a rural cottage; an Indigenous man who'd endured great trauma at a residential school; a young woman whose abuse at the hands of her father led to a severe personality disorder; and a glamorous workaholic whose negligent mother had greeted her each morning with "Good morning, Monster." Each patient presents a mystery, one that will only be unpacked over years. They seek Gildiner's help to overcome an immediate challenge in their lives, but discover that the source of their suffering has been long buried. It will take courage to face those realities, and creativity and resourcefulness from their therapist. Each patient embodies self-reflection, stoicism, perseverance, and forgiveness as they work unflinchingly to face the truth. Gildiner's account of her journeys with them is moving, insightful, and sometimes humorous. It offers a behind-the-scenes look into the therapist's office and explains how the process can heal even the most unimaginable wounds.

Author : José Luis Bermúdez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107051621

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Cognitive Science by José Luis Bermúdez Pdf

Cognitive Science combines the interdisciplinary streams of cognitive science into a unified narrative in an all-encompassing introduction to the field. This text presents cognitive science as a discipline in its own right, and teaches students to apply the techniques and theories of the cognitive scientist's 'toolkit' - the vast range of methods and tools that cognitive scientists use to study the mind. Thematically organized, rather than by separate disciplines, Cognitive Science underscores the problems and solutions of cognitive science, rather than those of the subjects that contribute to it - psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, etc. The generous use of examples, illustrations, and applications demonstrates how theory is applied to unlock the mysteries of the human mind. Drawing upon cutting-edge research, the text has been updated and enhanced to incorporate new studies and key experiments since the first edition. A new chapter on consciousness has also been added.

Author : Daniel S. Sweeney,Jennifer Baggerly,Dee C. Ray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136247200

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Group Play Therapy by Daniel S. Sweeney,Jennifer Baggerly,Dee C. Ray Pdf

Group Play Therapy presents an updated look at an effective yet underutilized therapeutic intervention. More than just an approach to treating children, group play therapy is a life-span approach, undergirded by solid theory and, in this volume, taking wings through exciting techniques. Drawing on their experiences as clinicians and educators, the authors weave theory and technique together to create a valuable resource for both mental health practitioners and advanced students. Therapists and ultimately their clients will benefit from enhancing their understanding of group play therapy.

Author : Bijal Shah
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1791623492

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The Happiness Mindset by Bijal Shah Pdf

There are some things in life no one tells you. Things that you figure out on your own through life experience, learning from others or otherwise through seeking professional help. Universal experiences such as relationship break ups, facing rejection at school or at job interviews, betrayal by a friend or a lover, financial loss or falling seriously ill can be heartbreaking. Do you sometimes wish someone had told you how to prevent or manage these negative events, or at least recover quickly from setbacks, losses or pain so you can quickly bounce back, focus on the things you love and live a happier, more successful life?This book includes 12 life strategies designed to guarantee a happier and more rewarding life and teach you how to create a "winning" mindset so that no matter what life throws at you, you can find happiness and success.

Author : Paul Moloney
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Psychotherapy
ISBN : 1849648778

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The Therapy Industry by Paul Moloney Pdf

Across the world anxiety, stress and depression are on the increase, a trend which looks set to continue as austerity measures bite. The official response tells people that unhappiness is just a personal problem, rather than a social one. This book offers a concise, accessible and critical overview of the world of psychological practice in Britain and the USA. Paul Moloney argues that much therapy is geared towards compliance and acceptance of the status quo, rather than attempting to facilitate social change. This book fundamentally challenges our conceptions of happiness and wellbeing. Moloney argues that therapeutic and applied psychology have little basis in science, that their benefits are highly exaggerated and they prosper because they serve the interests of power.

Author : Barry L. Duncan
Publisher : Amer Psychological Assn
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1433807572

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On Becoming a Better Therapist by Barry L. Duncan Pdf

"This superb book should be an essential part of any graduate training program in clinical psychology. It describes the use of an empirically supported method for improving therapy practice that does not depend on theoretical point of view. Duncan shows how gathering feedback session-by-session helps therapists quickly get to the key issues, evaluate when things are not going well, and make changes to improve service. This is all complemented by Duncan's incredible capacity to demonstrate how to enlist clients and their resources in their own self-growth; Art C. Bohart" -- BOOK JACKETEmr.

Author : Mitchell B. Merback
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781942130000

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Perfection's Therapy by Mitchell B. Merback Pdf

A deft reinterpretation of the most zealously interpreted picture in the Western canon as a therapeutic artifact. Albrecht Dürer's famous portrayal of creative effort in paralysis, the unsurpassed masterpiece of copperplate engraving titled Melencolia I, has stood for centuries as a pictorial summa of knowledge about the melancholic temperament, a dense allegory of the limits of earthbound arts and sciences and the impossibility of attaining perfection. Dubbed the “image of images” for being the most zealously interpreted picture in the Western canon, Melencolia I also presides over the origins of modern iconology, art history's own science of meaning. Yet we are left with a clutter of mutually contradictory theories, a historiographic ruin that confirms the mood of its object. In Perfection's Therapy, Mitchell Merback reopens the case file and argues for a hidden intentionality in Melencolia's opacity, its structural “chaos,” and its resistance to allegorical closure. That intentionality, he argues, points toward a fascinating possibility never before considered: that Dürer's masterpiece is not only an arresting diagnosis of melancholic distress, but an innovative instrument for its undoing. Merback deftly resituates Dürer's image within the long history of the therapeutic artifact. Placing Dürer's therapeutic project in dialogue with that of humanism's founder, Francesco Petrarch, Merback also unearths Dürer's ambition to act as a physician of the soul. Celebrated as the "Apelles of the black line" in his own day, and ever since as Germany's first Renaissance painter-theorist, the Dürer we encounter here is also the first modern Christian artist, addressing himself to the distress of souls, including his own. Melencolia thus emerges as a key reference point in a venture of spiritual-ethical therapy, a work designed to exercise the mind, restore the body's equilibrium, and help in getting on with the undertaking of perfection.