224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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In Beyond Therapy, Erving Polster examines the role of "life focus" in three of society's most familiar activities: ordinary conversation, the arts, and religion. He shows the life focus movement to be an indivisible complement to just simply living. In proposing a paradigm shift from psychotherapy's priority for changing people's troubled lives into the complementary purpose of illuminating their... Read more
Acknowledgements
Section A. The Importance of Life Focus
1.What I Mean By Life Focus
2.The Drama of the Split Mind
3.Life as Microcosm
4.A Focus Revolution
Section B. How Life Focus Groups Work
5.Life Focus Community: Design Ideas
6.Artful Engagement
7.Themes that Mark a Lifetime
8.Communal Setting
Section C. Social Implications of Life Focus
9.From the Supernatural to the Human: Part 1
10.From the Supernatural to the Human: Part 2
11.A Psychotherapeutic Morality
12.Dependable Identity
13.Belonging and Indivisibility
14.A Social Trust
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Erving Polster
