The Cry for Myth - Brossura

May, Rollo

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0393331776 ISBN 13: 9780393331776

Casa editrice: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991

Riassunto

It happens almost daily in a therapist's office. A patient, recalling a person, an event, an emotion, quite unexpectedly supplies a link from a life in the present to one of the durable myths of our culture. In this moment, the myth becomes a mirror, revealing to the patient the source of disturbance and pain in a pattern of behavior that often stretches a year or longer. The healing process begins. The myth, "eternity breaking into time" in Rollo Mays's words, becomes the focal point of recovery.

Through tracing myths – whether from classical Greece and Dante's Middle Ages, European legend (Faust and the prototype of Sleeping Beauty), or contemporary American life (Jay Gatsby) -- and relating them to the dreams and associations he encounters in his own practice, Dr. May provides meaning and structure for all who seek direction in a morally confusing world.

In this, perhaps the finest achievement of a great therapist, Rollo May writes with "the grace, wit, and style: for which he recently received the Gold Medal of the American Psychological Society.

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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: W. W. Norton & Company
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0393331776
• ISBN 13: 9780393331776
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 324
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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