Face stage fright and self-doubt with new courage The experience of
awe has rarely been considered by psychologists, but this
extraordinary book makes up for that neglect. Frightful Stages
explores all the shades of that strange emotion from reverence to
terror. At its heart, awe is the condition of human suffering in
situations that require you to act in all the senses of that
deceptively simple word, whether on stage or off, whether in the
presence of many or alone. Frightful Stages provides a multifaceted
view of the semiotics of awe. It deals with its manifestations in
film, on stage, in poetry, in ordinary lives as well as in the more
extraordinary ones, including Bessie Smith, Carl Van Vechten,
Barbra Streisand, Federico Fellini, Thomas Merton, and John
Ashbery. This unprecedented book delineates the experience of awe
in moments of stage fright, performance anxiety, and everyday
interpersonal relations. Frightful Stages takes place on and off
stage, before the curtain and behind, in the audience and on the
screen.It explores the mysterious experience of awe in a multitude
of contexts, including: Thomas Merton's psychoanalytic showdown
with Gregory Zilboorg the chronic tensions between Apollonian
reason and Dionysian instinct in myth, psychoanalysis, creation,
and performance the ill-fated encounter between the greatest of all
blues singers and a brilliant, self-loathing literary critic the
moment of awe in experiential psychotherapy as seen by both the
analyst and client the differences and similarities between stage
fright and social phobia the intricate interrelationships between
pernicious envy, emotional awkwardness, and fear a personal diary
chronicling one man's crisis of panic, anguish, and self-doubt the
complexities of feeling, offering, and accepting reverence in the
psychotherapeutic relationship Frightful Stages gives clinicians
and lay readers a variety of approaches from the analytic to the
unanalytic, from the psychodynamic to the humanistic. It will
appeal to a diverse audience, including therapists, clients, social
theorists, cultural anthropologists, performers, and
writers.Additionally, this book is intended to help artists deal
with creative blocks, therapists cope with their own terrors, and
all helping professionals understand bizarre phenomena.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2001 |
First published: |
2001 |
Editors: |
Robert B Marchesani
• Mark Stern
|
Dimensions: |
222 x 159 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
254 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7890-1366-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Medicine >
General issues >
General
|
LSN: |
0-7890-1366-5 |
Barcode: |
9780789013668 |
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