Poetry and Psychoanalysis: The Opening of the Field

by David Shaddock

Book Overview

Poetry and Psychoanalysis: The Opening of the Field provides a guide to applying a poet's imagination and precision of language to the healing endeavours of psychoanalysis while making a lucid journey through 2,000 years of transformative poetry from Virgil, Dante and Blake to the contemporary poet Claudia Rankine.

Patients enter treatment with the hope of being recognized and the hope for transformation of a painful experience. David Shaddock...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415699010
• ISBN13: 9780415699013
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"