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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827987503321

Titolo

Frightful stages : from the primitive to the therapeutic / / Robert B. Marchesani, E. Mark Stern, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2009

ISBN

1-317-78880-X

1-315-80919-2

1-317-78881-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MarchesaniRobert B

SternE. Mark <1929->

Disciplina

616.89/14

616.8914

Soggetti

Psychotherapy

Awe

Existential psychology

Experiential psychotherapy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Co-published simultaneously as the Psychotherapy patient, Volume  11, numbers 3/4 2001."

First published 2001 by the Haworth Press.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Awe: Dionysian and Apollonian (A Preface); Introduction-A Hermit in Times Square: Setting the Stage; One Sings, the Other Doesn't: Stage Fright and the Psychoanalytic Theater; The Awesome and the Awestruck: Bessie Smith and Carl Van Vechten; Burnt Offerings to Prometheus: The Consultation Meetings Between Thomas Merton and Gregory Zilboorg; The Nights and Knights of Cabiria: Modern Woman in Search of Her Soul; From the Couch to The Concert: Streisand as Doctor and Patient

Awe and Terror in the Living of the Resolution of the Polarity of Insight and ExpressionStanding in Awe: The Cosmic Dimensions of Effective Psychotherapy; You Will Have These Awe-Full Moments When You Have Your Own Experiential Session; What It Was Like to Go Through Three Awe-Full Moments in My Own Experiential Session; The Role of Awe in Experiential Personal Construct Psychology; Reflections on Mystery and



Awe; On Anguish and Other Frightful Moments in the Process of Self-Discovery; I'm Not Crazy, They Are Coming Around with Guns!; Finding the True Self Onstage: Dialogue with a Comedienne

The Little Old LadyPoetic Schizophrenia: Regarding the Performative Process of Composition; In Awe of the Superindividual: A Conversation with E. Mark Stern and Rob Marchesani; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Face stage fright and self-doubt with new courage!The experience of awe has rarely been considered by psychologists, but this extraordinary book makes up for that neglect. Frightful Stages explores all the shades of that strange emotion from reverence to terror. At its heart, awe is the condition of human suffering in situations that require you to act in all the senses of that deceptively simple word, whether on stage or off, whether in the presence of many or alone.Frightful Stages provides a multifaceted view of the semiotics of awe. It deals with its manifestations in f