David Cain
Description
Offers teachers, students, practitioners and researchers a compendium of research and practice techniques in the field of humanistic psychotherapies. In addition to the editors' overview of the history, defining characteristics, and evolution of humanistic psychotherapies, contributors illustrate significant research results and document the effectiveness of major humanistic therapeutic approaches, including client-centered, Gestalt, existential and...
Description
A stream-of-consciousness story of a young woman dealing with depression, a domineering husband and physician in the patriarchal world of the 1890s. The yellow wallpaper represents the family, medicine, and tradition in which the character finds herself trapped. Over the course of the story, the wallpaper becomes a text of sorts through which the character exercises her imagination and identifies with a figure who seems to have found freedom.