Imagining Hope: William F. Lynch's Psychology of Hope
This article is a follow-up to my recent article on Erving Goffman's Asylums (), an analysis of the mental hospital environment. I focus here on William F. Lynch's book Images of Hope () which was written when Lynch was a scholar in residence at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C....
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2016
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Pastoral psychology
Year: 2016, Volume: 65, Issue: 2, Pages: 143-165 |
| IxTheo Classification: | TK Recent history ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Adjustment (Psychology)
B Help B Despair B Leslie H. Farber B LYNCH, William F B Self-fragmentation B Wishing B Waiting B Psychological aspects B Erving Goffman B Imagination B The hopeful self B Hopelessness B Psychiatric hospitals B Hope B William F. Lynch |
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| Summary: | This article is a follow-up to my recent article on Erving Goffman's Asylums (), an analysis of the mental hospital environment. I focus here on William F. Lynch's book Images of Hope () which was written when Lynch was a scholar in residence at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. in . I take particular note of the fact that Lynch perceived the book to be a venture into the psychology of hope, and that he based this psychology on the complementary relationship of hope and imagination. I also consider the relationship that he draws between hope and help; the dynamic of hope and hopelessness; the roles of wishing and waiting in the development of a mature sense of hope; and the imagination as an instrument of coping. I conclude that among the selves that comprise our composite Self, the hopeful self is essential to life itself. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-015-0653-5 |