Family systems psychotherapy, literary character, and literature: an introduction.(Family Systems Psychotherapy and Literature/Literary Criticism)

From: Style | Date: June 22, 1997| Author: Knapp, John V. | Copyright information

Psychological literary criticism has sent out generations of scholars to do battle with recalcitrant imaginative texts, armed most often with the psychological tools of an early twentieth-century intrapsychic psychology that no longer answers all the interesting questions posed by those standing on the brink of the twenty-first. Unfortunately, one of the most widely used therapeutic models in the "real world"family systems therapy (hence, fst) - has barely made a ripple in the ocean of litera...

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