| Mirror to Nature: Drama, Psychoanalysis and Society Contributor(s): Rustin, Margaret (Author), Rustin, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367325586 ISBN-13: 9780367325589 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Literary Criticism | Drama - Psychology | Mental Health |
| Dewey: 616.891 |
| Series: Drama, Psychoanalysis and Society |
| Physical Information: (1.58 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book brings the insights of psychoanalysis to bear on drama in the western dramatic tradition. Plays which are discussed in detail include works by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, Wilde, and Beckett among others. The authors seek to show that the subtle understanding of conscious and unconscious emotions achieved by psychoanalytic practice can |
Contributor Bio(s): Rustin, Margaret: - Margaret Rustin is a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, London, where she has been Head of Child Psychotherapy since 1986. She has pioneered and supported the extension of training in psychoanalytic observational approaches to training across the United Kingdom and in a number of other countries. She has coauthored, with Michael Rustin, Narratives of Love and Loss and Mirror to Nature, and has co-edited Closely Observed Infants, as well as Psychotic States in Children and Assessment in Psychotherapy. |
