Frightful Stages : From the Primitive to the Therapeutic

ISBN-13: 9780789013651 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 238 str.

Robert B. Marchesani

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Contains 18 contributions exploring the importance of awe written by psychotherapists and psychologists of various schools and approaches. Contributions include personal accounts of awe-full experiential therapy sessions; reflections by a clinical psychologist regarding mystery and awe; analysis of the performative process of composition in the p

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Contents

• Awe: Dionysian and Appollonian (A Preface)
• Introduction-A Hermit in Times Square: Setting the Stage
• One Sings, the Other Doesn't: Stage Fright and the Psychoanalytic Theater
• The Awesome and the Awestruck: Bessie Smith and Carl Van Vetchen
• Burnt Offerings to Prometheus: The Consultation Meetings Between Thomas Merton and Gregory Zilboorg
• The Nights and Knights of Cabiria: Modern Woman in Search of Her Soul
• From the Couch to The Concert: Streisand as Doctor and Patient
• Awe and Terror in the Living of the Resolution of the Polarity of Insight and Expression
• Standing in Awe: The Cosmic Dimensions of Effective Psychotherapy
• You Will Have These Awe-Full Moments When You Have Your Own Experiential Session
• What It Was Like to Go Through Three Awe-Full Moments in My Own Experiential Session
• The Role of Awe in Experiential Personal Construct Psychology
• Reflections on Mystery and Awe
• On Anguish and Other Frightful Moments in the Process of Self-Discovery
• I'm Not Crazy, They Are Coming Around with Guns!
• Finding the True Self Onstage: Dialogue with a Comedienne
• The Little Old Lady
• Poetic Schizophrenia: Regarding the Performative Process of Composition
• In Awe of the Superindividual: A Conversation with E. Mark Stern and Rob Marchesani
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

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Robert B. Marchesani, Mark Stern