... . Krasteva Yonka . 1997 . “ Chaos and Pattern in Ellison’s Invisible Man .” Southern Literary Journal 30 , no. 1 : 55 – 72 . Latner Joel . 1992 . “ The Theory of Gestalt Therapy .” In Gestalt Therapy: Perspectives and Applications , 13 – 56 . New York : Gardner Press . Lederer...

...Nancy McCabe The American Essay in the American Century . By Stuckey-French Ned . Columbia : Univ. of Missouri Press . 2011 . xiv, 256 pp. $60.00 . Reading as Therapy: What Contemporary Fiction Does for Middle-Class Americans . By Aubry Timothy . Iowa City : Univ...

... Wendell Holmes’s The Guardian Angel (1867), Louisa May Alcott’s Hospital Sketches (1863), and Walt Whitman’s war entries in Specimen Days (from 1863) represent mental breakdown but propose a radically different therapy: the mind may be healed by acquiescing to the body’s physiological functions...

... successful and controversial books was nothing less than a ‘‘modern scientific fountain of youththe result, she claims, of a course of anti-aging treatment that gave her ‘‘renewed mental vitality and neural energy’’ (A, 556, 562). In Atherton’s case, this therapy con- sisted of eight sessions of X-rays...

... it wrought its damage, or what might alleviate the pain of those dying horrible deaths. Caught flat-footed, the US biomedical establishment took extraordinary steps to reimagine its ways of knowing: healthcare workers tried therapies before they were formally tested; researchers greenlit vaccines early...

... with a historical conscience.” An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton. By Dawn M. Skorczewski. New York: Routledge. 2012. xxvi, 242 pp. Cloth, $140.00; paper, $38.95; e-book, $35.95. This book is an exploratory study, placing the discourses of poetry and psy- chiatry beside each other...

... the fabric of postwar intellectual life. Despite the fact that through film and television the tropes of psychoanalysis were becoming household ideas during the 1950s, Highsmith was never an orthodox Freudian. Part of her discontent with psychoanalysis devel- oped when she underwent therapy in 1948...

... alternative medical treatments for himself and his family. Twain ‘‘readily accepted the claims and validity for essentially every new approach to medical therapy that came his way hydrotherapy, electrotherapy, the rest cure, osteopathy—nearly everything, finally, but Christian Science. The Twain who...

..., underlying the palpable hostility with which they treat each other’s chapters. The Whole Family often resembles a literary analog of group therapy, in which the assembled group collectively and singly reproduces the familial dynamic...

... analog of group therapy, in which the assembled group collectively and singly reproduces the familial dynamic. Writing in the voice of various family members, the writers repeatedly and strikingly express...

... C-therapy. Refusing to serve as a biomedical research subject, Fan becomes a fugitive to protect her reproductive capacities and her unborn child. Human variation in genetic models means that individual markers are rarely distributed along racial or ethnic lines, which would preclude Fan’s baby...

... and art). Adam is Black, although his skin tone is mentioned only briefly and the issue of race is never addressed overtly, yet it haunts the novel. The most intriguing part of McEwan’s novel is its alternative world building: Alan Turing decides not to take the mandated hormone therapy when outed...

... of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx, 461–63. Lynch, Lisa. “‘We Don’t Wanna Be Radiated’: Documentary Film and the Evolving Rhetoric of Nuclear Energy Activism,” 327–51. McCabe, Nancy. Review: Aubry, Reading as Therapy: What Contemporary Fiction Does...

... its breach, figuring the violability of the self and loss of control. He is not only unable to ori- ent himself in his now-unfamiliar­ surroundings; he cannot control treatment of the primary injury because he has no say in his therapy. Having lost his medical agency, Mark is no longer...

..., literally sometimes mere days into the condition. And while they were being ‘cured’ with all the therapies available now, it could be argued that they were never actually ‘well,’ given the constant stress of regimens and associated side effects. (277) The extended duration of C-illness does little...

... on the backgrounding of HIV/AIDS. Puar ( 2007 : xiii), for instance, insists that white queers could be made available to the state’s rhetorical needs only following the introduction of highly active retroviral therapy and protease inhibitors in the late 1990s. 10 Woubshet ( 2015 : 23) alleges similarly...

...—from reproductive technologies to electronic archives, from bioterrorism to gene therapy—makes science illiteracy no longer an option. Scholars in the humanities simply have to come to terms with these forces of change. Unpersuaded by the language of crisis with which some cultural observers have...

...-Gibson’s Silence Broken and The House of Sharing , and as the subjects of various art exhibits featuring their paintings (produced as part of an ongoing art therapy program). Additionally, several of the House of Sharing halmoni participated in the weekly protests at the Japanese Embassy sponsored...

... Therapy: Animal Magnetism in Eighteenth-Century England .” History of Science 33 ( June ): 127 – 77 . Fiedler Leslie . ( 1960 ) 1997 . Love and Death in the American Novel . Normal, IL : Dalkey Archive Press . Fliegelman Jay . 1982 . Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American...

... Laura Bodey’s can- cer and the drugs she is given during chemotherapy. In both cases, the antithesis is an uneasy one, as the therapies fail and their side effects turn out to be potentially as serious as the symptoms they were designed to cure. But the play on toxins and drugs, on involuntary risk...