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The Psychotherapy Novel: Learning on the Couch
Iva Žurić Jakovina
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci
Sažetak
This essay analyzes the psychotherapy novel as a new type of novel that almost exclusively deals with the topic of psychotherapy. They can be defined as a group of literary works that thematically correspond with psychotherapeutic process. The author’s attitude and the general tone of the novel are primarily didactic and tendentious, with the clear intention of providing information on psychotherapy and showing the readers how psychotherapeutic process work. Psychotherapeutic novels, apart from being intended for broad audience interested in psychotherapeutic process, can also very effectively correspond to the needs of professional readership, particularly of students of psychotherapy and psychotherapists themselves. The purpose of the article is to analyze the representation of psychotherapy in psychotherapeutic novels. Such analysis indicates the ways of fictionalizing and representing the psychotherapeutic process, pointing to those elements which are emphasized and iterated, and signaling to which psychotherapy schools and methods those novels correspond to. In addition to the analysis of representation of psychotherapy, there is also an analysis of the genre elements in psychotherapy novels. Psychotherapeutic fiction chosen for this analysis contains a novel by American psychiatrist and psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom When Nietzsche Wept (2008), a novel by Argentine psychotherapist Jorge Bucay Let Me Tell You a Story (2010), and the novel Therapy (1995) by the English author and literary critic David Lodge.
Ključne riječi
the psychotherapy novel; psychotherapy; self-help books; the didactic novel; psychology of literature
Hrčak ID:
188364
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Datum izdavanja:
3.10.2017.
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