Just Talk: Narratives of Psychotherapy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813121130)

" While countless memoirs have been written about depression and therapy, no one has examined how the ""talking cure"" of psychotherapy is presented in novels and other works of literature. Beginning with an overview of the principles of psychotherapy and its growing use as a treatment for mental and emotional disorders, Lilian Furst addresses the patient's view of the value of talk. Patients' portrayals of psychotherapy in literary works range from serious to satirical and from comic to ironic,

Author: Lilian R. Furst
ISBN-10: 0813121132
ISBN-13: 9780813121130
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 05/20/1999
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.28w x 0.96d