Shakespeare as Prompter: The Amending Imagination and the Therapeutic ProcessJessica Kingsley Publishers, 1994 - 454 Seiten Prompting is the thematic thread that pervades the pages of this book. Its primary connotation is that of the prompter who is urgently called into action, at moments of anxiety, when narrative begins to fail. The central dynamic issue concerns the amending imagination as a prompting resource which, through creativity and the aesthetic imperative, can be invoked in this therapeutic space when the patient - through fear, resistance or distraction - is unable to continue with his story. Psychotherapy can be regarded as a process in which the patient is enabled to do for himself what he cannot do on his own. Shakespeare - as the spokesman for all other poets and dramatists - prompts the therapist in the incessant search for those resonant rhythms and mutative metaphors which augment empathy and make for deeper communication and which also facilitates transference interpretation and resolution. The cadence of the spoken word and the different laminations of silence always call for more finely tuned attentiveness than the therapist, unprompted, can offer. The authors show how Shakespeare can prompt therapeutic engagement with "inaccessible" patients who might otherwise be out of therapeutic reach. At the same time, they demonstrate that the clinical, off-stage world of therapy can also prompt the work of the actor in his on-stage search for representational precision. |
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... Madness 380 " That way madness lies ' 5. Clinical Phenomenology and Shakespeare 401 ' What wood is this before us ? ' Epilogue 412 The Amending Imagination ' I thank thee , who hath taught my frail mortality to know itse References 414 ...
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Inhalt
Prompting Possibilities | 8 |
The Frame of Things | 33 |
Narrative Failure | 92 |
Emphasis Rhythm and Cadence | 132 |
Action | 163 |
Shakespeares Paraclinical Precision | 177 |
Time | 191 |
Depth | 206 |
Mutuality | 232 |
Mind | 252 |
Body | 284 |
Mind and Body | 301 |
Clinical Compression Subtext and LifeSentence | 330 |
Epilogue | 412 |
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action activity actor aesthetic affective aspects association attention awareness become beginning body capacity characters clinical comes concept concerned conscious creative death depth described direct discussion disturbance dream dynamic echoes emotional emphasis evidence example existence experience expression eyes fact feeling forensic Freud further gives Hamlet hand hold human identity imagination imperative implies important individual inner interpretation King Lear language lines linked live London look Macbeth madness meaning memory metaphor mind mode narrative nature object observed passage patient perception personality phrase play poetic possible precision present prompter prompting psychological psychotherapy question reference reflection relation relationship seems sense serve Shakespeare shape significance sometimes speak stage story structure tell theatre theme therapeutic space therapist therapy things thought unconscious understanding University voice writes