On the Lyricism of the Mind: Psychoanalysis and Literature
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2015
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 118
- Category :
Culture and Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 38517
- ISBN 13 : 9781138841796
- ISBN 10 : 113884179X
About the Author(s)
Dr Dana Amir is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, poetess and literature researcher. She is the author of four poetry books and two psychoanalytic non-fiction books. She is the winner of the Adler National Poetry Prize (1993), the Bahat Prize for Academic Original Book (2006), the Frances Tustin Memorial Prize (2011), the Prime-Minister Prize for Hebrew Writers (2012), and the IPA Sacerdoti Prize (2013). Cleft Tongue, her second non-fiction book, has recently received the Israel Science Foundation Grant. Dana Amir's papers were published in psychoanalytic journals and presented at national and international conferences. She is a lecturer at Haifa University and practices psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.