Title: Just talk
First published: 1999
Description: "While Countless Memoirs have been written about depression and therapy, no one has examined how the "talking cure" of psychotherapy is presented in novels and other works of literature. Beginning with an overview of the principles of psychotherapy and its growing use as a treatment for mental and emotional disorders, Lilian R. Furst addresses the patient's view of the value of talk."--BOOK JACKET.

"Furst examines such well-known works as Roth's Portnoy's Complaint, Plath's The Bell Jar, and Lodge's Therapy, as well as lesser-known novels, to discuss how patients react to psychotherapy as a cure for mental and emotional disorders."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Case studies, History and criticism, Literature, Modern, Modern Literature, Psychological fiction, Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy in literature
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PN56.P92 F87 1999