Reading to Stay Alive
Tolstoy, Hopkins and the Dilemma of Existence
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2022
Anthem Press (Verlag)
978-1-78527-891-4 (ISBN)
Anthem Press (Verlag)
978-1-78527-891-4 (ISBN)
This book explores how literary reading can enable people considering suicide to stay alive.
This book explores how literary reading can enable people considering suicide to stay alive. Written by an academic general practitioner with longstanding expertise in mental health, the book is grounded in the lived experience of patients, intertwined with perspectives from social psychology and moral philosophy. At its heart are reflective descriptions of the author’s encounters with Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and the Terrible Sonnets of Gerard Manley Hopkins, illuminating the therapeutic potential of recursive interactions between literature and experience.
This book explores how literary reading can enable people considering suicide to stay alive. Written by an academic general practitioner with longstanding expertise in mental health, the book is grounded in the lived experience of patients, intertwined with perspectives from social psychology and moral philosophy. At its heart are reflective descriptions of the author’s encounters with Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and the Terrible Sonnets of Gerard Manley Hopkins, illuminating the therapeutic potential of recursive interactions between literature and experience.
Christopher Dowrick is Emeritus Professor in the University of Liverpool UK, and past chair of the World Organisation of Family Doctors working party for mental health.
Figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Staying Alive?; 2.Thwarted Belongingness; 3.Escape from Them All and from Myself; 4. Not Choose Not to Be; 5. Points of Transformation; 6. Creating Raisons d’Etre; 7. Staying Alive; Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 20.06.2022 |
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Reihe/Serie | Anthem Studies in Bibliotherapy and Well-Being |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 153 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 454 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie |
Medizin / Pharmazie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78527-891-6 / 1785278916 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78527-891-4 / 9781785278914 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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