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Wisdom and the Senses
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 207

Wisdom and the Senses

Drawing on the Eriksonian theory of the life cycle, a parallel is shown between the growth and creation of self and the creation of art, focusing on the utilization of the senses as an integral part of achieving our potential

Activity, Recovery, Growth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 278

Activity, Recovery, Growth

In 1951 Joan M. Erikson, a craftswoman and writer, was asked to develop a program of planned activities for the patients at the Austen Riggs Center, a small private institution for the emotionally disturbed. In this book she and her co-workers describe their experience and its wider applications.

The Life Cycle Completed (Extended Version)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 143

The Life Cycle Completed (Extended Version)

"This book will last and last, because it contains the wisdom of two wonderfully knowing observers of our human destiny."—Robert Coles For decades Erik H. Erikson's concept of the stages of human development has deeply influenced the field of contemporary psychology. Here, with new material by Joan M. Erikson, is an expanded edition of his final work. The Life Cycle Completed eloquently closes the circle of Erikson's theories, outlining the unique rewards and challenges—for both individuals and society—of very old age.

Erikson on Development in Adulthood
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 301

Erikson on Development in Adulthood

By synthesizing Erikson's insights into adulthood from his unpublished papers, Hoare provides not only a much-needed integration of Erikson's thought, but also a glimpse into the dynamic mind of one of the twentieth century's most profound thinkers."--Jacket.

Vital Involvement in Old Age
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

Vital Involvement in Old Age

Erikson's now-famous concept of the life cycle delineates eight stages of psychological development through which each of us progresses. The last stage, old age, challenges the individual to rework the past while remaining involved in the present. The authors begin this work with their theory of life's stages through old age. In Part two, they discuss their interviews with twenty-nine octogenarians, on whom life history data has been collected for over fifty years. Part three is a discussion of the life history of the protagonist in Ingmar Bergman's film Wild Strawberries. In Part four, "Old age in our society", the authors offer suggestions for "vital involvement." Erik H. Erikson is winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

Universal Bead
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Universal Bead

Responding to a resurgence in the interest of beads, Erikson examines the role of these intriguing objects in human affairs throughout history, as decorations, insignias, bearers of magic powers, and as currency. Illustrated throughout with beautiful full-color plates.

The Broken Circle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

The Broken Circle

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Francis of Assisi as Artist of the Spiritual Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Francis of Assisi as Artist of the Spiritual Life

Francis of Assisi as Artist of the Spiritual Life applies modern psychological understanding to a historical person. While most such studies have sought a comprehensive personality profile, this work focuses on one aspect — Francis' imagination — and seeks greater insight into the imaginatively inspired spiritual vision of St. Francis. An analysis of Francis' writings builds on a survey of modern views of the imagination and the approach of ORT, or Object Relations Theory. ORT, with its contention that the imaginative creation of an infant's world develops out of the earliest interactions with the maternal caregiver, highlights the way Francis formed his way of visualizing the reality around him. While any study of a person 800 years in the grave is more dependent on what is plausible than on what is determinable, this study finds numerous examples where Francis' writings display an adept use of imagination and even encourages others in that use in a manner that corresponds to an ORT perspective on tutoring the imagination.

Everything In Its Path
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Everything In Its Path

The 1977 Sorokin Award–winning story of Buffalo Creek in the aftermath of a devastating flood. On February 26, 1972, 132-million gallons of debris-filled muddy water burst through a makeshift mining-company dam and roared through Buffalo Creek, a narrow mountain hollow in West Virginia. Following the flood, survivors from a previously tightly knit community were crowded into trailer homes with no concern for former neighborhoods. The result was a collective trauma that lasted longer than the individual traumas caused by the original disaster. Making extensive use of the words of the people themselves, Erikson details the conflicting tensions of mountain life in general—the tensions between individualism and dependency, self-assertion and resignation, self-centeredness and group orientation—and examines the loss of connection, disorientation, declining morality, rise in crime, rise in out-migration, etc., that resulted from the sudden loss of neighborhood.

Saint Francis Et [i.e. And] His Four Ladies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 156

Saint Francis Et [i.e. And] His Four Ladies

Out of this residue of verified fact and beloved legend, the image of Saint Francis emerges.