Barbara Almond, Richard Almond

The Therapeutic Narrative

Fictional Relationships and the Process of Psychological Change

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to Anne Tyler's The Accidental Tourist, one of the most appealing themes in a novel is that of personal transformation through a relationship. In this volume, the Almonds show how this message is also that of successful psychotherapy or psychoanalysis.

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How do people change? Longing for personal growth and transformation is a central theme of our times. Psychotherapy seeks to change the dynamics behind people's symptoms and conflicts. Writers, too, are fascinated by this theme, and have explored it frequently in their stories and characters. In this book, Barbara and Richard Almond, both psychoanalysts, explore a variety of novels that describe internal, personal change. They discover that there are fascinating parallels between the processes that lead to change in literary characters and the mechanisms observed in psychotherapeutic change. From Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden to Anne Tyler's IThe Accidental Tourist , the plot begins with a character struggling with personality limitations. A new person appears in the story; a bond is formed with the central character. In the relationship that follows, the two struggle. Confrontational and loving interactions lead the protagonist through a process of gradual change. The authors delineate a therapeutic narrative: the plot of change in both psychotherapy and literature. By comparing a variety of novels, they elaborate the elements of this therapeutic narrative and draw provocative conclusions about the mechanisms of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780275955793
• ISBN-10: 0275955796
• Artikelnr.: 22319738

Autorenporträt

BARBARA ALMOND is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University Medical Center. She received her M.D. from Yale University and did her psychiatric training at Georgetown and Stanford. Dr. Almond is an advanced candidate at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and has a private practice in Palo Alto, CA. RICHARD ALMOND is a member of the faculty at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and is Clincial Professor of Psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Almond received his M.D. from Yale University and did his psychiatric training at Yale. He is the author of The Healing Community (1974) and is currently in private practice in Palo Alto, CA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen's
Foreshadowing of Psychoanalytic Process Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë):
Mastering Passion and Guilt through Mutual Influence Margaret Drabble's The
Needle's Eye: A Depressive Neurosis Is Healed in a Spontaneous Relationship
The Accidental Tourist (Anne Tyler): Traumatic Loss and Pathological Grief
Respond to "Accidental Therapy" Silas Marner (George Eliot): Chronic
Depression Resolves in a Complexly Layered Therapeutic Process Frances
Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden: Multiple Cures, Multiple Processes of
Cure Heidi (Johanna Spyri): The Innocence of the Child As a Therapeutic
Force The Magus (John Fowles): A Literary Psychodrama The House of Mirth
(Edith Wharton): Tragedy--The Failure of a Relationship to Transform
Conclusion