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Name: The Therapeutic Narrative: Fictional Relationsh. Almond, Almond 0<|
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The Therapeutic NarrativeFictional Relationships and the Process of Psychological Change\nAuthor(s): Barbara Almond, Richard Almond\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Praeger Publishers Inc\nISBN-13: 9780275955793, 978-0275955793\nSynopsis\nHow do people change? Longing for personal growth and transformation is a central theme of our times. Psychotherapy seeks to change the dynamics behind people's symptoms and conflicts. Writers, too, are fascinated by this theme, and have explored it frequently in their stories and characters. In this book, Barbara and Richard Almond, both psychoanalysts, explore a variety of novels that describe internal, personal change. They discover that there are fascinating parallels between the processes that lead to change in literary characters and the mechanisms observed in psychotherapeutic change.\n\nFrom Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden to Anne Tyler's IThe A.