| Description |
1 online resource (144 p.) |
| Series |
Anthem Studies in Bibliotherapy and Well-Being |
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Anthem studies in bibliotherapy and well-being.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Staying Alive? -- Five Stories -- Suicidal Ideas and Actions -- Caring for People with Suicidal Thoughts -- Acknowledge the Deeply Unconsolable -- Themes of This Book -- Perspectives -- Notes -- 2. Thwarted Belongingness -- Anomie and Alienation -- Melancholia and Thanatos -- Social Roots of Suicide -- Belonging and Burden -- Defeat and Entrapment -- Sense of Safety -- Suicide as a Communicative Act -- Informing Literary Reading -- Notes -- 3. Escape from Them All and from Myself |
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It's All So Unimportant -- So as Not to Be Ashamed -- You Will Regret This -- The Zest Is Gone -- He Acted and Lived Unfalteringly and Definitely -- Serving the Universe -- Notes -- 4. Not Choose Not to Be -- Simple and Beautiful Oneness -- A Continually Jaded and Harassed Mind -- My Lament Is Cries Countless -- It Brings a Closeness -- Can Something, Hope -- Leave Comfort Root-Room -- Plough Down Sillion Shine -- Notes -- 5. Points of Transformation -- An Everyday Temptation -- A Denial of Experience -- Prate Not to Me of Suicide -- The Artist Must Play -- I Can't Wrap This Up |
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What Good Is Done? -- And Then We Shall Dwell Together -- Points of Transformation -- Notes -- 6. Creating Raisons d'etre -- A Vain, Fruitless, and Self-Contradictory Effort -- Intentional Entity -- Desire Is the Very Essence of Man -- Vastly More Intersubjectivity -- The Struggle Towards the Heights -- Continually Completely New? -- Notes -- 7. Staying Alive -- Sunt Lacrimae Rerum -- Back to Black -- Final Reflections -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
This book explores how literary reading can enable people considering suicide to stay alive |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910. Anna Karenina.
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Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1844-1889 fast |
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Anna Karenina (Tolstoy, Leo, graf) fast |
| Subject |
Reading, Psychology of.
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Reading -- Health aspects
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Suicide -- Prevention.
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Reading, Psychology of
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Suicide -- Prevention
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781785278938 |
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1785278932 |
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9781785278921 |
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1785278924 |
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