The Muse as Therapist: A New Poetic Paradigm for Psychotherapy

ISBN-13: 9780367328368 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 294 str.

Heward Wilkinson

Opis

In recent years there has been a cautious movement towards seeing psychotherapy and counselling as arts not as sciences. In this rich, yet rigorous, multidisciplinary text, this movement is explored in terms of poetry; therapy; dreams; literary texts; Heideggerian, Kantian, and post-modern philosophy; the modern developmental theorising of Daniel S

Spis treści

Introduction -- Therapy is Poetry -- A Therapeutic Dialogue -- Poetry or Existence?—Poetry Dialogues with Philosophy Dialogues with Poetry -- Reality, Existence, and the Shakespeare Authorship Question: King Lear, Little Dorrit, and the Man Who Was Shakespeare -- Poetic Enactment and Propositional Truth: Poetry and Objectivity -- Epilogue: The Poetry and Politics of Psychotherapy

O autorze

Wilkinson, Heward