Hommage und erstes autorisiertes Buch über Irvin D. Yaloms als Erzähler überhaupt. - Ein Buch über Irvin Yalom zu verfassen, war eine der kostengünstigsten und effektivsten Therapien meines Lebens ...»Ich bewundere Yalom für seine profunden Beiträge sowohl zur Psychotherapie als auch zur Literatur und für seine ungeheure Menschlichkeit.« Irvin D. Yalom ist nicht nur einer der bekanntesten und renommiertesten Psychotherapeuten Amerikas, sondern auch ein weltweiter B...

Norman Holland was unquestionably the leading 20th-century American psychoanalytic literary critic. Long known as the Dean of American psychoanalytic literary critics, Holland produced an enormous body of scholarship that appeals to both neophytes in the field and advanced researchers, many of whom have been influenced by his writings. Holland was one of the first proponents of reader-response criticism, the theorist of readers' identity themes, and the author of fifteen books that have be...

The first book-length study of the psychoanalytic memoir, this book examines key examples of the genre, including Sigmund Freud's mistitled An Autobiographical Study, Helene Deutsch's Confrontations with Myself: An Epilogue, Wilfred Bion's War Memoirs 1917-1919, Masud Khan's The Long Wait, Sophie Freud's Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family, and Irvin D. Yalom and Marilyn Yalom's A Matter of Death and Life.Offering in each c...

Sigmund Freud can be a polarizing figure, beloved by many and despised by some. Focusing on eight key writers and scholars who either passionately loved or gleefully loathed Freud, this book represents Freud's wide legacy, the reach of his ideas, their controversies, and their ability still to provoke, inspire, confound, outrage, and compel.The book begins by focusing on four highly prolific authors whose admiration for Freud is boundless: Lionel Trilling, Harold B...

Bringing together the human story of care with its representation in film, fiction and memoir, this book combines an analysis of care narratives to inform and inspire ideas about this major role in life. Alongside analysis of narratives drawn from literature and film, the author sensitively interweaves the story of his wife's illness and care to illuminate perspectives on dealing with human decline.Examining texts from a diverse range of authors such as Leo Tolstoy, Edith Wharton a...

Death is often encountered in English courses—Hamlet’s death, celebrity death, death from the terrorist attacks on 9/11—but students rarely have the opportunity to write about their own experiences with death. In Death Education in the Writing Classroom, Jeffrey Berman shows how college students can write safely about dying, death, and bereavement. The book is based on an undergraduate course on love and loss that Berman taught at the University at Albany in 2008. Part 1, “Diaries,” is org...

Mental illness can often be the driving force behind creativity. This relationship is never more apparent than in the memoirs of writers who have lived, worked and created with a mental illness. Mad Muse examines and unpicks this fascinating relationship, demonstrating that mental illness is often intergenerational while the story of mental illness is intertextual.The study begins with William Styron's iconic memoir Darkness Visible, moving through a succession of mental illness me...

Clinical Fictions: Psychoanalytic Novelists and Short Story Writers is the first book to explore works of fiction written by prominent psychoanalysts.Broken down into thematic sections, the book traces the literary output of pioneering psychoanalysts such as Julia Kristeva, Bruce Fink, Thomas Odgen, and Gregorio Kohon, among others. Berman looks at works of historical fiction, detective fiction, and the short story, and shows how recurring themes typical of these genres ca...

Explores Yalom's profound contributions to psychotherapy and literature.A distinguished psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Irvin D. Yalom is also the United States' most well-known author of psychotherapy tales. His first volume of essays, Love's Executioner, became an immediate best seller, and his first novel, When Nietzsche Wept, continues to enjoy critical and popular success. Yalom has created a subgenre of literature, the "therapy story," whe...

Assesses the contributions of six major psychoanalytic thinkers in the light of current academic and clinical trends in psychoanalysis.Psychoanalysis: An Interdisciplinary Retrospective offers in-depth discussions of and conversations with six psychoanalytic writers: Christopher Bollas, Nancy Chodorow, Sander L. Gilman, Adam Phillips, and Allen and Joan Wheelis. All are genuinely interdisciplinary in their work, bridging multiple cultural and professional ...

Explores how memoirs of widowhood can help us understand the reality of bereavement and the critical role of writing and reading in recovery.The death of a beloved spouse after a lifetime of companionship is a life-changing experience. To help understand the reality of bereavement, Jeffrey Berman focuses on five extraordinary American writers-Joan Didion, Sandra Gilbert, Gail Godwin, Kay Redfield Jamison, and Joyce Carol Oates-each of whom has written a memoir of s...

長久以來，亞隆就是我的英雄之一……我欽佩亞隆對心理治療和小說文學的深遠貢獻……他不是第一位寫「存在的痛苦」的人，但在這個主題上少有作者能夠超越亞隆的敏銳。其實，他已經將存在的痛苦轉變為心理治療以及心理治療小說藝術的獨特取徑。────傑佛瑞．柏曼存在主義心理治療師歐文．亞隆的著作一直廣受大眾喜愛，他的小說魅力甚至超越許多文學創作。本書由熱愛亞隆作品的紐約州立大學文學教授傑佛瑞．柏曼執筆，細數亞隆著作幕前幕後的精彩點滴。亞隆的作品匯集了心理治療中常見的議題：治療師的自我揭露、移情與反移情、醫病的性界限、死亡焦慮、存在的痛苦等等；有的是心理治療之所以成功的「魔法關鍵」，有的是生命共有的艱難大問，為何亞隆能處理得絲絲入扣、令人動容？為歷史名人做心理傳記的靈感從何而來？他本人又是如何周旋在「作家」和「心理治療師」兩種身分之間？本書爬梳了亞隆的非文學與文學著作，包含《團體心理治療的理論與實務》、《日漸親近》、《存在心理治療》、《短期團體心理治療》、《愛情劊子手》、《當尼采哭泣》、《診療椅上的謊言》、《叔本華的眼淚》、《斯賓諾莎問題》、《凝...