Reading to Stay Alive - Tolstoy, Hopkins and the Dilemma of Existence

Informationen zum Autor Christopher Dowrick is Emeritus Professor in the University of Liverpool UK, and past chair of the World Organisation of Family Doctors working party for mental health. Klappentext This book explores how literary reading can enable people considering suicide to stay alive. Inhaltsverzeichnis Figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Staying Alive?; 2.Thwarted Belongingness; 3.Escape from Them All and from Myself; 4. Not Choose Not to Be; 5. Points of Transformation; 6. Creating Raisons d'Etre; 7.  Staying Alive;  Index

Product details

• Authors: Chris Dowrick, Christopher Dowrick
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781785278914
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-891-4
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: Anthem Studies in Bibliotherapy and Well-Being; Anthem Studies in Bibliotherap
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; MEDICAL / General, PSYCHOLOGY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Psychology, Health psychology, Literature: history and criticism, Medicine / Healthcare: general issues / topics, Integrated Motivational-Volitional (IMV) model