sleepyone
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« on: August 30, 2009, 03:00:32 PM » |
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Ok... this is perhaps an odd one. I think I am craving bibliotherapy right now. So far I have found a lot of solace and resonance in these books and would be glad of similar/kindred suggestions:
*In a Country of Mothers: A M Homes
*This Book Will Save Your Life: A M Homes
*The Safety of Objects: A M Homes
*Beasts: Joyce Carol Oates
*My Sister's Keeper: Joyce Carol Oates
*The Drama of the Gifted Child: Alice Miller
Any similar thoughts? Merci!
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« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2009, 01:18:32 PM » |
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Interesting topic. Are they mutually inclusive? These were fun or interesting (if only at the time I read them)
Lying on the couch : a novel / Irvin D. Yalom
Fine : a novel / by Samuel Shem
Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler, J.S.P.S. by Jeremy Leven
I am recalling another, written by a woman, about a coming of age of a daughter of a shrink, and it was very quirky. I don't think it was one Sleepyone listed.
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sarhajojobean
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« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2009, 03:48:55 PM » |
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I read An Unquiet Mind as an undergraduate by Kay Redfield Jamison. I really enjoyed that book. It's about a woman's struggle to cope with bipolar disorder. Otherwise I agree with bsurev on the Yalom book. Although I haven't read Lying on the Couch, I am currently reading Love's Executioner by Yalom and I really enjoy his frank honesty and writing style about his experiences in psychotherapy.
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« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2009, 03:58:58 PM » |
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William Styron wrote about depression in Darkness Visible.
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« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2009, 04:07:35 PM » |
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OP, I've read and enjoyed all the books you listed. Have you read David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men? There's a story in there called "The Depressed Person" that I really liked.
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« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2009, 04:08:02 PM » |
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I feel like I'm looking at one of those sequences of numbers of the GRE test and I'm expected to know what the next one is, and I'm coming up blank. So I'm not seeing what those books have in common.
But here a couple of suggestions:
Anthology of a Crazy Lady: A Creative Cure Through Writing & Art
Susan L. Heisler
Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame
by Michael King
and of course novels by Frame herself.
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« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2009, 01:37:53 PM » |
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Not great: Fear of Flying. Erica Jong. Pretty funny, though.
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« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2009, 01:39:38 PM » |
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Have you read Roth's Portnoy's Complaint?
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« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2009, 02:27:50 PM » |
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Well, this is a great book for bibliotherapy and about a shrink: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, the psychotherapist who survives the Holocaust internment by observing and analyzing the dynamics of his fellow prisoners, and in the last third of the book develops his 'logotherapy' concept. Easy read; can be inspiring.
From a shrink-worthy client perspective there are two I found compelling reads:
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Hadden
For fun reads, see David Carkeet's A Full Catastrophe and Double Negative, featuring not a shrink but nonetheless therapeutic for a hapless scholar.
For a different sort of mind game involving parents with professions that influence others' world views, revisit The Chosen by Chaim Potak.
For a classic, dig out William James’ Variety of Religious Experience . Sort of like watching a doctor give himself an appendectomy.
I have to admit that I retreat to lazier media, and along the same lines you might enjoy a DVD with Six Feet Under episodes featuring Brenda's and her brother's dysfunctional shrink parents, or old Sopranos episodes when our hero sees Dr. miniskirts, and, of course, Good Will Hunting, ironically starring the son of a psychologist, resisting a psychologist.
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« Reply #9 on: November 14, 2009, 03:20:00 PM » |
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I haven't read it but am curious about In the Shadow of Fame by Sue Erikson Bloland, daughter of Erik Erikson.
Ordinary People, a 1980 film, has a therapist who seems to be the prototype for Robin Williams's role in Good Will Hunting.
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« Reply #10 on: November 14, 2009, 04:36:28 PM » |
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Do y'all remember reading A Separate Peace?
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« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2009, 11:06:55 AM » |
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I'm a beginning graduate student in a Masters of Counseling program. Can anyone recommend books that would be of value for me to read in my spare time to enhance my education?
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« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2009, 06:34:55 PM » |
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I'm a beginning graduate student in a Masters of Counseling program. Can anyone recommend books that would be of value for me to read in my spare time to enhance my education?
For your own therapy or for understanding abnormal thinking or for insight into the counseling process? Fiction or nonfiction? If nonfiction, narrative or theory or research? |
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« Reply #13 on: November 15, 2009, 07:09:04 PM » |
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Running with Scissors Augusten Burroughs
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« Reply #14 on: November 15, 2009, 07:27:50 PM » |
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Here's one that fits the subject line very well, although it may not be what you are looking for.
Anna Freud: A Biography
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
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