Psychodynamics through literature.

Wood, Austin

doi:10.1037/h0047826

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“…The idea of using literature 1 to teach people how to recognize psychopathology and to conceptualize clients has existed for decades (Mahoney, 1965;Silberger, 1973;Tucker, 1994;Wood, 1955). It has been proposed that literature allows clinicians in training to recognize and conceptualize psychopathology in a manner that is more expressive and less clearly laid out than the case examples and descriptions found in psychology textbooks (i.e., Douglas, 2008;Mahoney, 1965).…”

Section: Using Novels and Related Literary Genres In Supervisionmentioning

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“…It was also an exercise in understanding others' motivations and emotions. Others suggested that conceptualizing characters in novels provided student clinicians a nonthreatening opportunity to disagree with peers and supervisors about these conceptualizations and to develop their personal understanding of human behavior (Silberger, 1973;Wood, 1955).…”

Section: Using Novels and Related Literary Genres In Supervisionmentioning

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Allowing for Psychosis to be Approachable and Understandable as a Human Experience: A Role for the Humanities in Psychotherapy Supervision

Leonhardt

Hamm²,

Fogley

et al. 2015

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Psychiatry and related mental health fields, in particular psychotherapy, have a long history of close ties with the humanities. That bond has weakened, however, over the last few decades as medicalized views of mental health and treatment have emerged. In this paper, we explore the potential of the reintroduction of the humanities, specifically novels and related literary genre, into the supervision of student clinicians working with clients who have psychosis. We believe that incorporation of novels and related literary genre into supervision can lead to unique and deepened understanding of the experience of psychosis, and can create an opportunity for a working therapeutic alliance. The potential mechanisms that create these unique opportunities to understand psychopathology are explored, and considerations for the implications for treatment, training, and future research are presented.

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Section: Using Novels and Related Literary Genres In Supervisionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Allowing for Psychosis to be Approachable and Understandable as a Human Experience: A Role for the Humanities in Psychotherapy Supervision

Leonhardt

Hamm²,

Fogley

et al. 2015

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“…Available reports of such courses maintain that they have met with considerable success and student acceptance (Gorman, 1984;Hollander, 1956;Levine, 1983;Schwartz, 1980;Williams & Kolupke, 1986;Wood, 1955). Anthologies of literary materials have also been published explicitly for use in psychology courses (e.g., Fernandez, 1972;Rabkin, 1966;Stone & Stone, 1966).…”

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Psychology and Literature: A Survey of Courses

Grant

1987

Teaching of Psychology

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A survey of interdisciplinary courses in psychology and literature was taken. College and university catalogs from the United States and Canada were scanned to locate both psychology courses that used literary materials and literature courses in which psychological concepts and theories were taught. Instructors of 135 selected courses were mailed a letter requesting additional information about their courses and syllabi. The survey indicated that most of the courses were taught in literature departments. Psychoanalysis was found to be the dominant theoretical orientation, though a few other perspectives were represented. T h e syllabi were used to compile a reading list of psychological fiction for teaching and for general interest.Psychology and the literary arts often have similar aims and purposes. For example, at various times both psychologists and authors seek to offer hypotheses concerning the causes of behavior, to gain insights into the determinants of actions, and to improve our understanding of the nature of psychological problems. What authors and psychologists seem to share most fundamentally is an interest in describing human behavior and mental life in relation to environments, contexts, and circumstances. In psychology, this description often includes only those limited aspects of performance that are used as dependent variables; the description is in service of the identification of causal relationships. In literature, though, "description of the behavior of a certain person [in good literature] . . . will evoke in the mind of the reader a full, rich, rounded, and very lifelike picture of a person-in-action as seen against the background of his life and times" (Wood, 1955, p. 32).Psychological and literary knowledge bases can often complement each other; the personally detailed description in literature can serve to humanize the stark quantitative findings of psychological research. Swartz (1979) provided a detailed example of the complementary nature of psychological and literary knowledge by comparing and contrasting psychological research o n the effects of food deprivation with a novel in which the protagonist is starving. Swartz concluded: "To the extent that psychological methods obscure significant facts of individuality, or empty behavior by isolating events from their full life context, literature can supply the necessary corrective" (p. 1027).

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“…The lower emotional stakes of discussing a work of fiction compared to interacting with an actual person in pain may allow trainees and early career clinicians a nonthreatening opportunity to explore their own converging and diverging ideas from their peers and supervisors regarding human behavior and mental illness (Silberger, 1973; Wood, 1955). By using the text as a way to relate to the work, we have found that participants are often more willing to share and reflect upon negative or socially undesirable reactions they have to the text or certain characters, which has commonly led to thinking about how these might surface in therapy or contribute to defenses they may adopt as therapist.…”

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confidence: 99%