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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Autore principale: Capps, Donald 1939- (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Articolo
Lingua:Inglese
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Pubblicazione: 2016
In: Pastoral psychology
Anno: 2016, Volume: 65, Fascicolo: 2, Pagine: 143-165
Notazioni IxTheo:TK Età contemporanea
ZD Psicologia
Altre parole chiave: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 The hopeful self
B Hopelessness
B Psychiatric hospitals
B Hope
B Immaginazione
B William F. Lynch
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Riepilogo: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.
ISSN:1573-6679
Comprende:Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s11089-015-0653-5