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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 relationshipFrightful 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.
In this fascinating volume, Anthony Molino interviews some of today
s foremost thinkers in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Organized
around the fertile and controversial concept of multiplicity,
Elaborate Selves explores the life work and thought of a diverse
group of therapists who have played key roles in furthering
postmodern perspectives on self experience. Through five engaging
conversations, readers discover how discontinuities in self
experience reflect phenomena that are both fundamental to
formations of human identity and central to an understanding of
contemporary relationships. Throughout the strands of these
interviews, theory and practice come alive in a multivocal
exploration at the intersections of culture and history, ideology
and instinct, biology and fantasy, nostalgia and hope, and,
ultimately, of trauma and treatment.Elaborate Selves explores the
postmodern concern with the notion of a "multiple" or "fragmented"
self. In this context, the stories, lives, and "selves" of the very
therapists interviewed are seen to reflect predicaments and
tensions of the culture at-large. Each interview explores a
therapist s unique contribution to the field while making
connections between efforts and theories that at a first glance
appear remarkably diverse. Among these are: the constructivism of
Jungian Buddhist and feminist Polly Young-Eisendrath; the inspired
object-relations theorizing of Christopher Bollas; and the mystic
sensibilities of Michael Eigen. Readers will find that the depth
and complexities of the following issues are rendered in a language
that is at once both compelling and accessible: contemporary
theories of the "self" and implications for clinical practice
psychoanalysis and postmodernism psychoanalysis and spirituality
myth and ritual as a basis for self-knowledge and group
psychotherapyA fundamental text for clinicians and students of all
schools of psychoanalysis, contemporary social theory, philosophy
and religious thought, Elaborate Selves is a major contribution to
the ever-growing genre of the interview. Indeed, the interviews
collected in this unique volume offer more than an exciting
exploration of a singular group of life experiences. They probe
beyond the biographical to illustrate connections between personal
and intellectual history and between life experience, culture, and
the production of knowledge in an increasingly complex world.
At a time when biological psychiatry claims that drugs and
electroshock are the best methods for helping deeply disturbed
persons, mental health professionals need to be reminded that
psychological and social approaches to mental illnesses remain more
effective, less harmful, and much more able to address the real
needs of recovery, growth, and development for affected persons.
Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons empowers
counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers to
trust their intuitive and clinical understanding of how to help
seriously disturbed people through humane, caring
approaches.Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons
introduces mental health professionals to an array of psychological
and social alternatives that are available for helping patients
considered "psychotic" or very emotionally disturbed. Focusing on
psychological and social approaches to helping people who become
labeled "psychotic" or who carry serious psychiatric diagnoses,
contributors show mental health professionals psychological,
social, and spiritual alternatives for approaching or treating
these individuals. Readers learn about: a successful model for
nonmedical, non-drug residential treatment centers utilizing the
artwork of psychotic patients case histories of psychoanalytic
therapy group therapy to help families with a "schizophrenic"
member improve communication Re-evaluation Counseling (RC) with
disturbed individuals psychoanalytically-oriented therapy World
Health Organization research which demonstrates the positive effect
of extended family and social relationships and the negative effect
of modern biopsychiatric treatment research demonstrating the
efficacy of psychotherapy with persons labeled "schizophrenic"These
chapters combined with a review of empirical studies demonstrate to
readers the efficacy of psychotherapy with psychotic patients.
Students or experienced professionals in any of the mental health
fields, including psychotherapy, counseling, clinical psychology,
clinical social work, and Re-evaluation Counseling will find
Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons a necessity for
most effectively and humanely treating clients with serious
psychiatric diagnoses.
This enlightening book integrates humanistic and transpersonal
psychotherapy principles with family systems work. Transforming the
Inner and Outer Family discusses a wide range of creative
methodologies, such as the use of meditation, guided imagery, and
energy centers in the body to bridge the inner and outer
experiences of the individual and family members. Chapters explore
the healing capacity of intense affect to unify significant others
through the transformation of fear, anger, and grief to
understanding, compassion, love, and forgiveness. The book is
practical as well as theoretical, containing many case studies
focusing on individual, couples, and family therapy. In addition, a
special chapter is included on the use of family of origin
sessions. Transcripts of actual cases show detailed methods of
entering into the therapy system to promote change and demonstrate
the operational definition of spirituality and its practical
utilization in psychotherapy. Also included is a special candid
interview between the author and Virginia Satir, mother of family
therapy, nine months before she died, on her personal and
professional life.Transforming the Inner and Outer Family presents
an integrative family systems model that emphasizes the
coordination of existential, humanistic, and transpersonal healing
psychologies. This model coordinates Virginia Satir's later
thinking with Roberto Assagioli's model of psychosynthesis. Author
Sheldon Kramer blends principles of psychosynthesis with family
systems work and thoroughly explains the use of his new model,
Mind-Body Systems Therapy, (TM) including: development of internal
family configurations the spiritual dimension within the systemic
context integrating the use of the body with meditation in healing
practices methods of healing the inner nuclear and
intra-generational family bridging the inner and outer familial
world stages of inner and outer healing the use of self in
therapyTransforming the Inner and Outer Family is on the cutting
edge of current emerging interests in alternative medicine,
especially in holistic principles of healing, with emphasis on the
spiritual dimension as a major healing conduit for transformation.
Readers will discover in this book a solid theoretical base that
integrates traditional psychology, including psychodynamic/object
relations theory, with less-mainstream forms of psychotherapy, and
will learn effective strategies for helping individuals, couples,
and families heal.
Betrayal in all its forms has been and is an ever present reality
in every area of life--politics, business, and human relationships
to name a few. Recent publications have chronicled the unethical
actions of mental health and other human service professionals, yet
the psychology of betrayal has received little public interest and
attention. This book explores the many issues relating to
psychotherapy and betrayal. The contributing authors of Betrayal in
Psychotherapy and its Antidotes present the various faces of
betrayal as may be encountered by therapists in the office or in
the profession. They challenge therapists to understand the
violations of trust that can occur within the therapeutic
relationship. Readers are reminded that the trauma of betrayal
manifests itself within all patients, regardless of of the nature
and expression of psychopathology. More importantly, the authors
define betrayal as experienced with specific cases and they attempt
to bring out underlying principles that are useful to therapists
and the larger professional community.Readers will find their
understanding of the concept of betrayal much expanded from the
chapters in Betrayal in Psychotherapy and its Antidotes. For
example, betrayal is discussed as a failure in the interpersonal or
inter-subjective relationship between therapist and client in one
chapter as opposed to the concept of betrayal as an act calculated
to lead another person astray, an act of deception or treachery,
and a breach of confidence and trust as considered in another
chapter. Other approaches to betrayal and psychotherapy include:
how to determine what is betrayal in psychotherapy the use of case
examples to establish the importance of the therapist striving to
remain true to the genuine potentiality of a patient how to avoid
colluding with the patient 's rejection of life the work of Alice
Miller, a psychoanalyst by training, and the betrayal of children
by abuse the paradoxical nature of psychiatric practice and its
necessary reliance upon moral reasoning an investigation on the
link between therapists'personal maturity and the success of
therapy how traditional humanistic and analytic therapies can
entrap both therapist and patient into a betrayal of self and the
relationship implications of the "betrayal of the feminine" in
males and their work with clients in a psychotherapy setting a case
portrayal of "Teddy"--the betrayal of the betrayed
Learn effective strategies for therapy with promiscuous patients
from this in-depth exploration of the phenomenon of promiscuity in
the lives and backgrounds of patients seeking psychotherapy. This
unique book features insights about the pitfalls of patients who
cannot bear commitment to any one person, or who jeopardize their
commitments with a need to spark their lives with promiscuity.
Psychotherapy and the Promiscuous Patient teaches psychotherapists
to respond to their patients'promiscuous behavior as a symptom of a
problem, not the problem itself. A realm of aspects of promiscuity
are explored within the psychiatric context. Promiscuity is very
broadly defined in fascinating examinations of adult promiscuity as
a result of childhood sexual abuse, hypersexuality in adult males,
addiction to the sensation of "falling in love," career
promiscuity, and even psychotherapy as an uncommon "promiscuity'--a
nonexclusive, altruistic love. Timely chapters confront the
changing distinctions between promiscuity and sex addiction and
challenge readers to uncover the various emotional needs met by
promiscuity in order to protect patients from their
self-destructive behavior. Knowledgeable practicing
psychotherapists relate methods for dealing with patients'constant
restlessness and working with a variety of patients in an intimate
setting. Psychotherapy and the Promiscuous Patient contains
invaluable strategies that can be directly applied to practice
including: the use of narrative construction and reconstruction as
treatment for sexually promiscuous clients a self-psychological
approach to treatment the importance of confusion as an
introduction to change in therapy a method of self-investigation
applied to promiscuous behavior the implications of the clinical
meaning and therapeutic use of strong-laughter outbursts in
psychology a self-psychology perspective on transference to
therapistsPsychotherapy and the Promiscuous Patient is a valuable
clinical book for psychotherapists, and it offers an across the
board appeal to a wide variety of psychiatrists and related social
scientists who are interested in today's shifting moral climate. It
is also an ideal supplemental text for an introductory methods or
applications in psychiatry course.
The specific guidelines to the clinical management of the bored or
boring patient--offered in this provocative book--will be valuable
to all psychotherapists. Contributors discuss the fascinating
theories and therapies of boredom--why it is both a necessity and
an obstacle to a person's development. Fresh insights into the
meaning of boredom for the patient or the therapist (or both) are
presented through the discussion of such topics as the type of
person most prone to boredom, boredom as a launching point into
other experiences, boredom as a defense against strong affects and
drive derivatives, the manifestations of boredom in marital therapy
clients, and much more.
Here is an important new book focusing on the contribution of the
therapist's love and empathy to the therapeutic process. Technique
without dedication, discipline, and understanding will rarely
benefit patients nor help resolve their conflicts. Psychoanalytic
Technique demonstrates how the therapist's countertransference
feelings, anxieties, wishes, and superego admonitions shape his or
her therapeutic interventions.
Coming at a time of renewed interest in the developmental changes
of the life cycle, Psychotherapy and the Widowed Patient is a rich
resource that examines the impact of a spouse's death on an
individual's mental health. Psychiatrists and psychoanalysts
address a wide range of issues concerning loss, grief, and
bereavement, and provide practical and creative approaches for both
widowed persons and the helping professionals charged with treating
their grief. Chapters in this compassionate volume discuss the
characteristics of individuals who are more likely to seek
professional help in coping with grief, widowhood as a time of
growth and development, the value of openness instead of denial in
dealing with death, the grieving process in young widowed spouses,
the similarities of widowhood to separation and divorce, the role
of dependency in how well widowed patients develop emotionally, and
the role of loyalty in the process of grief. The more clinical
chapters examine strategies for carrying out experiential
psychotherapy with widowed patients, rational-emotive therapy,
grief therapy, the effects of new perspectives on spousal
bereavement on clinical practice, and aspects of bereavement
response to loss, with a timeframe for viewing psychotherapeutic
intervention. A review of the psychological literature regarding
widowhood completes this comprehensive new book.
At a time when biological psychiatry claims that drugs and
electroshock are the best methods for helping deeply disturbed
persons, mental health professionals need to be reminded that
psychological and social approaches to mental illnesses remain more
effective, less harmful, and much more able to address the real
needs of recovery, growth, and development for affected persons.
Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons empowers
counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers to
trust their intuitive and clinical understanding of how to help
seriously disturbed people through humane, caring
approaches.Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons
introduces mental health professionals to an array of psychological
and social alternatives that are available for helping patients
considered "psychotic" or very emotionally disturbed. Focusing on
psychological and social approaches to helping people who become
labeled "psychotic" or who carry serious psychiatric diagnoses,
contributors show mental health professionals psychological,
social, and spiritual alternatives for approaching or treating
these individuals. Readers learn about: a successful model for
nonmedical, non-drug residential treatment centers utilizing the
artwork of psychotic patients case histories of psychoanalytic
therapy group therapy to help families with a "schizophrenic"
member improve communication Re-evaluation Counseling (RC) with
disturbed individuals psychoanalytically-oriented therapy World
Health Organization research which demonstrates the positive effect
of extended family and social relationships and the negative effect
of modern biopsychiatric treatment research demonstrating the
efficacy of psychotherapy with persons labeled "schizophrenic"These
chapters combined with a review of empirical studies demonstrate to
readers the efficacy of psychotherapy with psychotic patients.
Students or experienced professionals in any of the mental health
fields, including psychotherapy, counseling, clinical psychology,
clinical social work, and Re-evaluation Counseling will find
Psychosocial Approaches to Deeply Disturbed Persons a necessity for
most effectively and humanely treating clients with serious
psychiatric diagnoses.
Betrayal in all its forms has been and is an ever present reality
in every area of life--politics, business, and human relationships
to name a few. Recent publications have chronicled the unethical
actions of mental health and other human service professionals, yet
the psychology of betrayal has received little public interest and
attention. This book explores the many issues relating to
psychotherapy and betrayal. The contributing authors of Betrayal in
Psychotherapy and its Antidotes present the various faces of
betrayal as may be encountered by therapists in the office or in
the profession. They challenge therapists to understand the
violations of trust that can occur within the therapeutic
relationship. Readers are reminded that the trauma of betrayal
manifests itself within all patients, regardless of of the nature
and expression of psychopathology. More importantly, the authors
define betrayal as experienced with specific cases and they attempt
to bring out underlying principles that are useful to therapists
and the larger professional community.Readers will find their
understanding of the concept of betrayal much expanded from the
chapters in Betrayal in Psychotherapy and its Antidotes. For
example, betrayal is discussed as a failure in the interpersonal or
inter-subjective relationship between therapist and client in one
chapter as opposed to the concept of betrayal as an act calculated
to lead another person astray, an act of deception or treachery,
and a breach of confidence and trust as considered in another
chapter. Other approaches to betrayal and psychotherapy include:
how to determine what is betrayal in psychotherapy the use of case
examples to establish the importance of the therapist striving to
remain true to the genuine potentiality of a patient how to avoid
colluding with the patient's rejection of life the work of Alice
Miller, a psychoanalyst by training, and the betrayal of children
by abuse the paradoxical nature of psychiatric practice and its
necessary reliance upon moral reasoning an investigation on the
link between therapists'personal maturity and the success of
therapy how traditional humanistic and analytic therapies can
entrap both therapist and patient into a betrayal of self and the
relationship implications of the "betrayal of the feminine" in
males and their work with clients in a psychotherapy setting a case
portrayal of "Teddy"--the betrayal of the betrayed
The specific guidelines to the clinical management of the bored or
boring patient--offered in this provocative book--will be valuable
to all psychotherapists. Contributors discuss the fascinating
theories and therapies of boredom--why it is both a necessity and
an obstacle to a person's development. Fresh insights into the
meaning of boredom for the patient or the therapist (or both) are
presented through the discussion of such topics as the type of
person most prone to boredom, boredom as a launching point into
other experiences, boredom as a defense against strong affects and
drive derivatives, the manifestations of boredom in marital therapy
clients, and much more.
In this fascinating volume, Anthony Molino interviews some of
today's foremost thinkers in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
Organized around the fertile and controversial concept of
multiplicity, Elaborate Selves explores the life work and thought
of a diverse group of therapists who have played key roles in
furthering postmodern perspectives on self experience. Through five
engaging conversations, readers discover how discontinuities in
self experience reflect phenomena that are both fundamental to
formations of human identity and central to an understanding of
contemporary relationships. Throughout the strands of these
interviews, theory and practice come alive in a multivocal
exploration at the intersections of culture and history, ideology
and instinct, biology and fantasy, nostalgia and hope, and,
ultimately, of trauma and treatment.Elaborate Selves explores the
postmodern concern with the notion of a "multiple" or "fragmented"
self. In this context, the stories, lives, and "selves" of the very
therapists interviewed are seen to reflect predicaments and
tensions of the culture at-large. Each interview explores a
therapist's unique contribution to the field while making
connections between efforts and theories that at a first glance
appear remarkably diverse. Among these are: the constructivism of
Jungian Buddhist and feminist Polly Young-Eisendrath; the inspired
object-relations theorizing of Christopher Bollas; and the mystic
sensibilities of Michael Eigen. Readers will find that the depth
and complexities of the following issues are rendered in a language
that is at once both compelling and accessible: contemporary
theories of the "self" and implications for clinical practice
psychoanalysis and postmodernism psychoanalysis and spirituality
myth and ritual as a basis for self-knowledge and group
psychotherapyA fundamental text for clinicians and students of all
schools of psychoanalysis, contemporary social theory, philosophy
and religious thought, Elaborate Selves is a major contribution to
the ever-growing genre of the interview. Indeed, the interviews
collected in this unique volume offer more than an exciting
exploration of a singular group of life experiences. They probe
beyond the biographical to illustrate connections between personal
and intellectual history and between life experience, culture, and
the production of knowledge in an increasingly complex world.
Learn effective strategies for therapy with promiscuous patients
from this in-depth exploration of the phenomenon of promiscuity in
the lives and backgrounds of patients seeking psychotherapy. This
unique book features insights about the pitfalls of patients who
cannot bear commitment to any one person, or who jeopardize their
commitments with a need to spark their lives with promiscuity.
Psychotherapy and the Promiscuous Patient teaches psychotherapists
to respond to their patients'promiscuous behavior as a symptom of a
problem, not the problem itself. A realm of aspects of promiscuity
are explored within the psychiatric context. Promiscuity is very
broadly defined in fascinating examinations of adult promiscuity as
a result of childhood sexual abuse, hypersexuality in adult males,
addiction to the sensation of "falling in love," career
promiscuity, and even psychotherapy as an uncommon "promiscuity'--a
nonexclusive, altruistic love. Timely chapters confront the
changing distinctions between promiscuity and sex addiction and
challenge readers to uncover the various emotional needs met by
promiscuity in order to protect patients from their
self-destructive behavior. Knowledgeable practicing
psychotherapists relate methods for dealing with patients'constant
restlessness and working with a variety of patients in an intimate
setting. Psychotherapy and the Promiscuous Patient contains
invaluable strategies that can be directly applied to practice
including: the use of narrative construction and reconstruction as
treatment for sexually promiscuous clients a self-psychological
approach to treatment the importance of confusion as an
introduction to change in therapy a method of self-investigation
applied to promiscuous behavior the implications of the clinical
meaning and therapeutic use of strong-laughter outbursts in
psychology a self-psychology perspective on transference to
therapistsPsychotherapy and the Promiscuous Patient is a valuable
clinical book for psychotherapists, and it offers an across the
board appeal to a wide variety of psychiatrists and related social
scientists who are interested in today's shifting moral climate. It
is also an ideal supplemental text for an introductory methods or
applications in psychiatry course.
Psychotherapy is profoundly indebted to Carl Jung, who among
others, discovered the mappings of soul psychology. Carl Jung and
Soul Psychology is a fascinating exploration of the identity and
unifying work of soul psychology. The editors have met a monumental
challenge in enlisting the scope of wisdom represented in this
unique book.
Coming at a time of renewed interest in the developmental changes
of the life cycle, Psychotherapy and the Widowed Patient is a rich
resource that examines the impact of a spouse's death on an
individual's mental health. Psychiatrists and psychoanalysts
address a wide range of issues concerning loss, grief, and
bereavement, and provide practical and creative approaches for both
widowed persons and the helping professionals charged with treating
their grief. Chapters in this compassionate volume discuss the
characteristics of individuals who are more likely to seek
professional help in coping with grief, widowhood as a time of
growth and development, the value of openness instead of denial in
dealing with death, the grieving process in young widowed spouses,
the similarities of widowhood to separation and divorce, the role
of dependency in how well widowed patients develop emotionally, and
the role of loyalty in the process of grief. The more clinical
chapters examine strategies for carrying out experiential
psychotherapy with widowed patients, rational-emotive therapy,
grief therapy, the effects of new perspectives on spousal
bereavement on clinical practice, and aspects of bereavement
response to loss, with a timeframe for viewing psychotherapeutic
intervention. A review of the psychological literature regarding
widowhood completes this comprehensive new book.
Psychotherapy is profoundly indebted to Carl Jung, who among
others, discovered the mappings of soul psychology. Carl Jung and
Soul Psychology is a fascinating exploration of the identity and
unifying work of soul psychology. The editors have met a monumental
challenge in enlisting the scope of wisdom represented in this
unique book.
Help your clients successfully integrate the angel and the rebel!
Saints and Rogues: Conflicts and Convergence in Psychotherapy is a
unique look at two extremes of human behavior and thought--and how
they meet within the psychotherapy experience. In this extensive
resource, you will gain a greater understanding of human potential
by exploring personalities where the line between conformity and
divergence has been blurred. This book will help psychotherapists,
pastoral and marriage and family counselors, and medical/nursing
service providers guide patients and clients in turning negative
actions and decisions into positive ones.
In Saints and Rogues, you will find: an assessment of the life of
Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949)-- called "rogue therapist" by his
peers; today a hero for his influence on psychotherapy practice
bullying in school--the creation of a prevention program used at
the K-5 level designed to appeal to the empathy of the children who
are bullied as well as the perpetrators an examination of
historical, sociological, and psychoanalytic research about Italian
Americans stereotyped as rogues during the twentieth century and in
the media today interviews with individuals self-identified as
"third gender" who live as neither men nor women--and their
frequent encounters with spirituality and much more! Saints and
Rogues: Conflicts and Convergence in Psychotherapy reevaluates the
ethical ramifications of dual/duel relationships, revealing how a
roguish character may be seen as saintly and vice versa. This book
emphasizes the importance of seeing and treating one another with
the same consideration as we would give ourselves. If knowledge is
power, thereader--therapist and layperson alike--will find strength
in these pages to face their home, work, or school lives with more
confidence and pride.
Help your clients successfully integrate the angel and the rebel!
Saints and Rogues: Conflicts and Convergence in Psychotherapy is a
unique look at two extremes of human behavior and thought--and how
they meet within the psychotherapy experience. In this extensive
resource, you will gain a greater understanding of human potential
by exploring personalities where the line between conformity and
divergence has been blurred. This book will help psychotherapists,
pastoral and marriage and family counselors, and medical/nursing
service providers guide patients and clients in turning negative
actions and decisions into positive ones.
In Saints and Rogues, you will find: an assessment of the life of
Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949)-- called "rogue therapist" by his
peers; today a hero for his influence on psychotherapy practice
bullying in school--the creation of a prevention program used at
the K-5 level designed to appeal to the empathy of the children who
are bullied as well as the perpetrators an examination of
historical, sociological, and psychoanalytic research about Italian
Americans stereotyped as rogues during the twentieth century and in
the media today interviews with individuals self-identified as
"third gender" who live as neither men nor women--and their
frequent encounters with spirituality and much more! Saints and
Rogues: Conflicts and Convergence in Psychotherapy reevaluates the
ethical ramifications of dual/duel relationships, revealing how a
roguish character may be seen as saintly and vice versa. This book
emphasizes the importance of seeing and treating one another with
the same consideration as we would give ourselves. If knowledge is
power, thereader--therapist and layperson alike--will find strength
in these pages to face their home, work, or school lives with more
confidence and pride.
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.
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