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Ph.D., is the author of eight books and eighty-five published essays on Jungian psychology, spirituality, and cultural studies. His most recent books are How to Read Jung (London: Granta 2006), and as editor (together with London analyst Ann Casement) The Idea of the Numinous: Contemporary Jungian and Psychoanalytic Perspectives (London: Routledge, forthcoming in 2006). Other recent books include, TheSpirituality Revolution (London: Routledge 2004), and Jung and the New Age (London: Routledge 2001). David Tacey is Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Critical Enquiry, La Trobe University, Melbourne. He teaches courses on spirituality, Jungian psychology, and literature, and his main interest is the recovery of meaning in the contemporary world.
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VASUDEVI REDDY is a Reader in Developmental and Cultural Psychology at the University of Portsmouth where she has been since 1989. She studied Psychology at Osmania University in Hyderabad, India and later completed her PhD at Edinburgh University. She is interested in issues of communication and knowing other minds, particularly in infancy, and in their similarity to issues in the development and mixing of cultures. ADDRESS: Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, PO1 2DY, England. Email: [vasu.reddy@port.ac.uk]
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The theme of "transformation" is proposed as a structure for exploring the interrelationships between poetry and psychology. Transformative processes are integral to psychological perspectives on poetry -- how poetry is written, what poetry reflects, and what it has the potential to evoke. Poets' transformations of experience and perspective, along with transformative use of language, underlie the making of poetry. Transformation is reflected in the functions and appeals poetry can have for readers and writers of different ages, and it is sought in the practice of poetry therapy. There is a long tradition of psychological study of poetry and the transformations entailed in its making. Poetry, in turn, can be a powerful and evocative vehicle for understanding and communicating transformative processes as studied by various psychological subdisciplines.
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In "The Uses of Psychology," Bernard Paris answers those critics who are hesitant to accept psychological analysis as a method of exploring and assessing literature. Norman Holland for one has argued that psychology is quite limited in its application to works of art in themselves because its focus is "not with literature, but with minds" (qtd. in Paris 226). If psychology has any application to literature, Holland maintains it is perhaps to the study of the audience's mind. Paris counters... that at least within realistic fiction there are two other minds that can be studied: that of the implied author and that of the leading character. Paris rejects "'the retreat from character'" evident in some modern criticism and reaffirms the mimetic roots of realistic fiction (227).
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Clinical psychology and psychotherapy are human activities structured in interpersonal relationships trying to foster personal growth and development. In this sense, they can not be alien to other disciplines concerning human experience. They can not be decontextualized from their social, historical, cultural, and political environment.
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