1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463357703321

Autore

Morris Roy, Jr.

Titolo

Declaring his genius [[electronic resource] ] : Oscar Wilde in North America / / Roy Morris, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-674-07139-5

0-674-06787-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p., [16] p. of plates ) : ill., ports

Disciplina

828/.809

Soggetti

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Too too utterly utter -- More wonderful than Dickens -- Those who dawnce don't dine -- What would Thoreau have said to my hatbox? -- No well-behaved river ought to act this way -- A very italy, without its art -- Don't shoot the pianist, he is doing his best -- You should have seen it before the war -- The Oscar of the first period is dead.

Sommario/riassunto

Arriving at the port of New York in 1882, a 27-year-old Oscar Wilde quipped he had "nothing to declare but my genius." But as Roy Morris, Jr., reveals in this sparkling narrative, Wilde was, for the first time in his life, underselling himself. A chronicle of the sensation that was Wilde's eleven-month speaking tour of America, Declaring His Genius offers an indelible portrait of both Oscar Wilde and the Gilded Age. Wilde covered 15,000 miles, delivered 140 lectures, and met everyone who was anyone. Dressed in satin knee britches and black silk stockings, the long-haired apostle of the British Aesthetic Movement alternately shocked, entertained, and enlightened a spellbound nation. Harvard students attending one of his lectures sported Wildean costume, clutching sunflowers and affecting world-weary poses. Denver prostitutes enticed customers by crying: "We know what makes a cat wild, but what makes Oscar Wilde?" Whitman hoisted a glass to his health, while Ambrose Bierce denounced him as a fraud. Wilde helped alter the way post-Civil War Americans-still reeling from the most destructive conflict in their history-understood themselves. In an era



that saw rapid technological changes, social upheaval, and an ever-widening gap between rich and poor, he delivered a powerful anti-materialistic message about art and the need for beauty. Yet Wilde too was changed by his tour. Having conquered America, a savvier, more mature writer was ready to take on the rest of the world. Neither Wilde nor America would ever be the same.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910821161003321

Autore

Turrell Sheri L.

Titolo

ACT for adolescents : treating teens and adolescents in individual and group therapy / / Sheri L. Turrell, PhD, Mary Bell, MSW, RSW

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, CA : , : Context Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-62625-358-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Classificazione

PSY006000PSY048000

Disciplina

616.89/15200835

Soggetti

Adolescent psychotherapy

Group psychotherapy for teenagers

Teenagers - Mental health - Treatment

Acceptance and commitment therapy

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 index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- PART 1. ACT Basics -- PART 2. Session 1:The Assessment -- Session 2: Creative Hopelessness -- Session 3: Identifying Values -- Session 4: Setting Goals: Putting Values into Action -- Session 5: Willingness and Allowing of Feelings -- Session 6: Defusing from Thoughts -- Session 7: Defusing from "Story" -- Session 8: Self-as-Context -- Session 9: Self-Compassion -- Session 10: Pulling It All Together.

Sommario/riassunto

"In this much-needed guide, a clinical psychologist and a social worker provide a flexible, ten-week protocol based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help adolescents overcome mental health hurdles and thrive.If you're a clinician working with adolescents, you



understand the challenges this population faces. But sometimes it can be difficult to establish connection in therapy. To help, ACT for Adolescents offers the first effective professional protocol for facilitating ACT with adolescents in individual therapy, along with modifications for a group setting.In this book, you'll find invaluable strategies for connecting meaningfully with your client in session, while at the same time arriving quickly and safely to the clinical issues your client is facing. You'll also find an overview of the core processes of ACT so you can introduce mindfulness into each session and help your client choose values-based action. Using the protocol outlined in this book, you'll be able to help your client overcome a number of mental health challenges from depression and anxiety to eating disorders and trauma.If you work with adolescent clients, the powerful and effective step-by-step exercises in this book are tailored especially for you. This is a must-have addition to your professional library.This book includes audio downloads"--