Human stories are the core of identity and meaning. This book is an invitation to the engaging and reforming power of telling stories. It is also an invitation to heal the story of health care for older adults by improving the communication between professionals in medicine, psychology, and religion.
At any age the process of genuinely listening and expressing hopes and fears is an intimacy rarely matched in human interaction. Life stories can be told, revised, and rewritten through psychotherapy and improved by a health care which integrates the best of medicine, religion, and...
Human stories are the core of identity and meaning. This book is an invitation to the engaging and reforming power of telling stories. It is also a...
Peake uses prevailing and emerging models of life-span development along with examples from Cinema to animate psychological understanding and application.
The use of film offers powerful opportunities for anecdotes, clinical applications, and examples of life stories drawn from popular and lesser-known cinema. The addition of movies as metaphors make the material accessible to lay, student, and professional readers. Drawn from numerous workshops and symposia using this material, Peake finds this emphasis breathes life into teaching, negotiating, and growing from new perspectives.
Peake uses prevailing and emerging models of life-span development along with examples from Cinema to animate psychological understanding and appli...
