Kindred Arts: Biographic Writing and Psychodynamic Therapy, Complexities and Complications

by Esther Urdang

Biographies are the stories of lives, whether written by biographers or elicited by clinicians. Parallel activities take place behind the scenes for both, as both are engaged in similar psychological and intellectual processes. Both are emotionally involved in this work, and their subjectivity colors their activities. Backscheider wrote that the "presence of the writer exists] in every biography," sometimes fully acknowledged and openly discussed,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1956864733
• ISBN13: 9781956864731
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Ipbooks
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"