1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789656703321

Autore

Rawson Penny

Titolo

Short-term psychodynamic psychiatry [[electronic resource] ] : an analysis of the key principles / / by Penny Rawson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Karnac Books, 2002

ISBN

0-429-91917-4

1-283-29869-4

9786613298690

1-84940-358-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Disciplina

616.89

616.8914

Soggetti

Psychodynamic psychotherapy

Psychiatry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; INDEX OF APPENDIX AND TABLES; INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS; Acknowledgements; About the author; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Why this book? A personal and contextual perspective; CHAPTER TWO: Setting the parameters; CHAPTER THREE: Theoretical framework and methodology; CHAPTER FOUR: Findings from the initial cycles of analysis; CHAPTER FIVE: Part One: Analysis of the emergent key themes: findings from the in-depth cycle of analysis; 5.1.1. What is understood by the phrase ""short-term""; 5.1.2. Psychodynamic roots; 5.1.3. Flexibility; 5.1.4. Activity

5.1.5. The focus in focal and short-term psychotherapy5.1.6. The therapeutic alliance and motivation; 5.1.7. Importance of the first session; Part Two: Summary of the findings from the in-depth analysis of the key themes and provisional conclusions; CHAPTER SIX: Client commentaries: C, M and 1 and a complete case example: Case I; 6.1. Client C's commentary; 6.2. Client M's commentary; 6.3. Client I's complete case; 6.4. Client I's comment on the therapy experience; CHAPTER SEVEN: The analysis within the wider context of the latest thinking in the field



CHAPTER EIGHT: Inconsistency in the ""universal characteristics"" seen in the literatureCHAPTER NINE: Concluding chapter: Brief psychodynamic psychotherapy: A contextual framework and key principles; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

'This book concentrates on short term psychodynamic psychotherapy. It aims to discover and analyse the key principles involved. It also aims to enrich the understanding of an approach to therapy that is already of benefit to many in our community, but that could reach very many others if it were better known and understood.' - from the Introduction.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778064203321

Autore

Balkun Mary McAleer

Titolo

The American counterfeit [[electronic resource] ] : authenticity and identity in American literature and culture / / Mary McAleer Balkun

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8173-8257-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Collana

Studies in American literary realism and naturalism

Disciplina

810.9/353

Soggetti

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Counterfeits and counterfeiting in literature

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature

Impostors and imposture in literature

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Passing (Identity) in literature

Self in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-176) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The real, the self, and commodity culture, 1880-1930 -- Whitman's natural history : specimen days and the culture of authenticity -- "I couldn't see no profit in it" : discourses of commoditization and authenticity in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Connoisseurs and counterfeits : Edith Wharton's The house of mirth -- Dressing to kill :



desire, race, and authenticity in Nella Larsen's Passing -- A world of wonders : collecting and the authentic self in The great Gatsby.

Sommario/riassunto

Fakery, authenticity, and identity in American literature and culture at the turn of the 20th century  Focusing on texts written between 1880 and 1930, Mary McAleer Balkun explores the concept of the "counterfeit," both in terms of material goods and invented identities, and the ways that the acquisition of objects came to define individuals in American culture and literature. Counterfeiting is, in one sense, about the creation of something that appears authentic-an invented self, a museum display, a forged work of art. But the counterfeit can also be a means by which the authentic