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Systemic concepts in literature and art

Abstract

dc:description.abstract

The examination of literature and art has been one of psychotherapy's most powerful ways of explicating its theories and disseminating its concepts. In this study, I have explored various concepts of family psychotherapy by applying them to three works of imaginative literature, and one work of sculpture: Luigi Pirandello's play, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Franz Kafka's novella, The Metamorphosis, Robinson Jeffers' poem, "The Purse-Seine," and the ancient Roman sculpture, the Laocoon.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph. D.
Level thesis:degree_level
doctoral
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Family and Child Development
Department dc:contributor.department
Family and Child Development
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
1991

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Johnson, Scott
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Keller, James F.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Lichtman, Marilyn V.
  • Lipton, Aaron
  • Maxwell, Joseph W.
  • Protinsky, Howard O. Jr.

Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright
Language dc:language.iso
en

Identifiers

dc:identifier.*
Dc Identifier Other
etd-07282008-135409
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/28438

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Johnson, Scott. Systemic concepts in literature and art. doctoral thesis, Virginia Tech, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28438