Reading to Stay Alive

Tolstoy, Hopkins and the Dilemma of Existence

AvChristopher Dowrick

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-07-05
Mått:153 x 229 x 26 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Anthem Studies in Bibliotherapy and Well-Being
Antal sidor:162
Förlag:Anthem Press
ISBN:9781785278914

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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.

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“This is an incredibly powerful book. It is about hope and the power of literature in helping any one of us through the darkest of times. It is a sophisticated book which combines theory, literature and people’s stories in a way that is both enlightening and engaging. I highly recommend this book.” — Rory O’Connor, Professor of Health Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Innehållsförteckning

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