Psychoanalysis and Literature: The Stories We Live

Author(s) : Marilyn Charles

Psychoanalysis and Literature: The Stories We Live

Book Details

  • Publisher : Rowman and Littlefield
  • Published : 2015
  • Cover : Hardback
  • Pages : 294
  • Category :
    Culture and Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 38954
  • ISBN 13 : 9781442231832
  • ISBN 10 : 1442231831
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Psychoanalysis offers many concepts that are extremely useful clinically but not always accessible in the original. In Psychoanalysis and Literature: The Stories We Live, Marilyn Charles pairs case vignettes with examples from literature to highlight the essential human struggles that play out in the consulting room. This pairing depathologizes those struggles and offers a conceptual framework that can help the clinician facilitate these journeys of discovery.

Describing first how literature affords an opportunity for vicarious engagement with struggles endemic to the human condition, she then focuses on trauma, dreams, and 'cultural collisions' turning more explicitly to the developmental challenges of identity, relatedness, aging, and generativity. Psychoanalysis and Literature is accessible, relevant, and timely.

About the Author(s)

Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP, is a psychologist and psychoanalyst at the Austen Riggs Center, chair of the association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, and scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council. Affiliations include Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, Universidad de Monterrey, and Harvard Medical School.

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