The Psychology of Adaptation To Absurdity - Tactics of Make-believe

List of contents

Preface. What to Do About Absurdity? How Difficult Is It to Be Human? What Is Death Anxiety and How Pervasive Is It? The Problems of Uncertainty and Insignificance. Testing the Buffering Power of Religious Imagery. Learning How to Pretend and Make Things Up. Classical Defense Mechanisms. How Do Make-Believe and Psychopathology Intersect? Conjuring up a Self. Somatic Consequences of Illusions. Larger Perspectives.

About the author

Fisher, Seymour; Fisher, Rhoda L.; Fisher, Rhoda

Product details

• Authors: Rhoda Fisher, Rhoda L Fisher, Rhoda L. Fisher, Seymour Fisher
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.1993
• EAN: 9780805812053
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-1205-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 515 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works