Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality (Tavistock Clinic Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Waddell, Margot

Mental Health

Routledge

The Emotional Experience of Learning and Teaching (Routledge Education Books)

Literature is recognized as having significantly influenced the development of modern psychoanalytic thought. In recent years, psychoanalysis has drawn increasingly on the literary and artistic traditions of Western culture, and moved away from its original medical-scientific context. "The Chamber of Maiden Thought" explores the seminal role of literature in forming the modern psychoanalytic model of the mind. The authors argue that psychoanalysis is a true child of literature rather than merely the interpretor or explainer of literature, illustrating this with examples from clinical experience and by close scrutiny of the dynamic mental processes presented in the work of Shakespeare, Milton and others.

The Chamber of Maiden Thought: Literary Origins of the Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind

Williams, Meg Harris

Psychology & Counseling

Tavistock Books

Literature is recognised as having significantly influenced the development of modern psychoanalytic thought. In recent years psychoanalysis has drawn increasingly on the literary and artistic traditions of western culture and moved away from its original medical–scientific context. Originally published in 1991 The Chamber of Maiden Thought (Keats's metaphor for 'the awakening of the thinking principle') is an original and revealing exploration of the seminal role of literature in forming the modern psychoanalytic model of the mind.The crux of the 'post-Kleinian' psychoanalytic view of personality development lies in the internal relations between the self and the mind's 'objects'. Meg Harris Williams and Margot Waddell show that these relations have their origins in the drama of identifications which we can see played out metaphorically and figuratively in literature, which presents the self-creative process in aesthetic terms. They argue that psychoanalysis is a true child of literature rather than merely the interpreter or explainer of literature, illustrating this with some examples from clinical experience, but drawing above all on close scrutiny of the dynamic mental processes presented in the work of Shakespeare, Milton, the Romantic poets, Emily Bronte and George Eliot.The Chamber of Maiden Thought will encourage psychoanalytic workers to respond to the influence of literature in exploring symbolic mental processes. By bringing psychoanalysis into creative conjunction with the arts, it enables practitioners to tap a cultural potential whose insights into the human mind are of immense value.

The Chamber of Maiden Thought (Psychology Revivals): Literary Origins of the Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind

Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of Personality (Tavistock Clinic Series)

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

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Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality (Tavistock Clinic)

Karnac Books

Adolescence and adolescent states of mind have seldom captured so much attention publicly, nor have they stirred so much anxiety and disturbance privately. This long acknowledged, problematic, transitional world between childhood and adulthood is especially fraught, these days, with the assaults and pressures of contemporary culture and modern technology. The heart of the book lies in the exploration of the inner lives of these young people, whether or not they find their way to clinical services. It sets out to illuminate the sorts of things that go wrong, and how we can help to address them – the crises of identity, gender, loss, self-harm, bullying, depression, anger, suicidal impulses, anxiety, and so much more. On Adolescence: Inside Stories is intended for all those concerned with adolescence, and adolescent states of mind at whatever age or stage.

On Adolescence: Inside Stories (Tavistock Clinic Series)

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Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality (Tavistock Clinic Series)

The Emotional Experience of Learning and Teaching (Routledge Education Books)

The Chamber of Maiden Thought: Literary Origins of the Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind

The Chamber of Maiden Thought (Psychology Revivals): Literary Origins of the Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind

The Chamber of Maiden Thought (Psychology Revivals): Literary Origins of the Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind

Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of Personality (Tavistock Clinic Series)

Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of Personality (Tavistock Clinic Series)

Inside Lives: Psychoanalysis and the Growth of the Personality (Tavistock Clinic)

The Chamber of Maiden Thought (Psychology Revivals): Literary Origins of the Psychoanalytic Model of the Mind

On Adolescence: Inside Stories (Tavistock Clinic Series)