Psychoanalysis and Novels/Short Stories

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I bought the first book in this thread because it was the only one of these that the bookshop stocked, and the preface amused me and answered the questions I had reading the blurb (What psychoanalyst would ever recommend writing a diary?). I'm excited to start reading fiction and not pure psychoanalysis in two days' time when my course ends.

tangenttangent, Saturday, 11 August 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link

Not a novel, but https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18888853-a-young-girl-s-diary is very interesting: a diary of a young Viennese woman published under Freud's auspices

Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Sunday, 12 August 2018 08:02 (five years ago) link

It seems that the comic form is more frequently exploring the therapeutic encounter than other types of fiction, perhaps because of the unparalleled way it can depict multiple levels of internal and external communication. It's a fairly difficult discipline to capture...

https://dangerousminds.net/content/uploads/images/eeeecpsycho3rs.jpg

eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Sunday, 12 August 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link


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