Frightful stages : from the primitive to the therapeutic / Robert B. Marchesani, E. Mark Stern, editors.

Face stage fright and self-doubt with new courage!The experience of awe has rarely been considered by psychologists, but this extraordinary book makes up for that neglect. Frightful Stages explores all the shades of that strange emotion from reverence to terror. At its heart, awe is the condition of...

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Other Authors: Marchesani, Robert B., Stern, Mark
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Awe : Dionysian and Apollonian (a preface) / E. Mark Stern
  • Introduction : a hermit in Times Square : setting the stage / Rob Marchesani
  • One sings, the other doesn't : stage fright and the psychoanalytic theater / Isaac Tylim
  • The awesome and the awestruck : Bessie Smith and Carl Van Vechten / E. Mark Stern
  • Burn offerings to Prometheus : the consultation meetings between Thomas Merton and Gregory Zilboorg / Alexander Smith
  • The nights and knights of Cabiria : modern woman in search of her soul / Edward Mendelowitz
  • From the couch to The concert : Streisand as doctor and patient / Rob Marchesani
  • Awe and terror in the living of the resolution of the polarity of insight and expression / Edward W.L. Smith
  • Standing in awe : the cosmic dimensions of effective psychotherapy / Kirk. J. Schneider
  • You will have these awe-full moments when you have your own experiential session / Alvin R. Mahrer
  • What it was like to go through three awe-full moments in my own experiential session / Anthony D. Firestone
  • The role of awe in experiential personal construct psychology / L.M. Leitner
  • Reflections on mystery and awe / David N. Elkins
  • On anguish and other frightful moments in the process of self-discovery / Scott Churchill
  • I'm not crazy, they are coming around with guns! / Charles T. Tart
  • Finding the true self onstage : dialogue with a comedienne / Casey Fraser, Rob Marchesani
  • The little old lady / Pietro Arpesella
  • Poetic schizophrenia : regarding the performative process of composition / John Schertzer
  • In awe of the superindividual : a conversation with E. Mark Stern and Robert Marchesani.