Article: Family systems psychotherapy, literary character, and literature: an introduction.(Family Systems Psychotherapy and Literature/Literary Criticism)

Article: Family-systems psychotherapy and psychoanalytic ...
Mosaic (Winnipeg);  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... argues for family-systems psychotherapy ... psychological literary criticism. The essay ... psychology known as family-systems therapy ... useful for literary criticism. Indeed ... been applying family-systems theory as ...

Article: Anne Tyler's 'Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant': a critical ...
Style;  June 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... argument. My own students understand "family systems therapy" - at least on an informal ... What is remarkable about contemporary family systems theory as a means of interpreting literature ... evolves as part of a social environment; family systems theory goes beyond the self as a ...

Article: "Only connecting" with the family: class, culture, and narrative ...
Style;  June 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... depicts in Nice Work. The parlance of family systems psychotherapy offers a particularly ... diversity of their class origins, family systems psychotherapy demonstrates the manner ... nothing else, "only connect." The family systems paradigm also provides a meaningful ...

Article: "Choking on my own saliva": Henry Miller's bourgeois family ...
Style;  June 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... family alcove where he "heard nothing but inanities" (Black Spring 22). Nevertheless, many adherents of contemporary family systems therapy recognize that even the most ostensibly autonomous individuals owe much of their behavior to their reactions to ...

Article: The family dynamics of the reception of art.(Family ...
Style;  June 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ...In our verbal accounts of how we read literature, see a work of art, or hear music, usually the first thing that happens is that the "we" disappears and is replaced by an "T": the focus shifts to the individual apprehending the work of art in isolation. This shift occurs despite our increasing

Article: "Anaconda love": parental enmeshment in Toni Morrison's 'Song of ...
Style;  June 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ...I think that if people put so much emphasis on family and children, it is because they live in great isolation; they have no friends, no love, no affection, nobody. They are alone; therefore they have children in order to have somebody. Simone de Beauvoir Like Simone de Beauvoir, Toni Morrison

Article: John V. Knapp and Kenneth Womack, eds. Reading the Family Dance: ...
Style;  March 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... the Family Dance: Family Systems Therapy and Literary ... review demonstrates, Family Systems Therapy (FST ... psychologically oriented literary criticism, still dominated ... the new kid on the literary criticism block" (13 ...