Personal mythology as a paradigm for a holistic public psychology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9053073 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A David Feinstein (Mental Health Services, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 198-217 |
| Publication date | 1979-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9432 • E-ISSN: 1939-0025 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1939-0025.1979.tb02602.x |
| PMID | 86305 |
| OpenAlex | W2122964239 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 38 |
Viewing personal myths as cognitive structures, this paper examines the existing literature on cultural mythology, considers its relationship to personal mythology, and proposes an understanding of personal myths as a means of enhancing individuals' control over their lives. Its applicability to therapeutic counseling and its role in a holistic public psychology are discussed
Art · Mythology · Sociology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Community Health and Development · Cultural Differences and Values · Psychology · Social Psychology
Spirituality and mental health in older adults
Evangelical Renewal Therapy
Psychotherapy and religious values.
Family Myths
Suffering and wisdom
The Life Story and the Study of Resilience and Response to Adversity
Reconciling transcendent experiences with the individual's evolving mythology
Introduction
How mythology got personal
The mythopoesis of psychotherapy
Personal mythology
Film and dream imagery in personal mythology
The collective past, group psychology and personal narrative
At Play in the Fields of the Mind
Mythmaking and Human Development
Expected Life History
Existential foundations of psychology
Psychology and religion
Motivating economic achievement
Religions, values, and peak-experiences
The myth of mental illness
Realms of the human unconscious
The Uses of Enchantment
Passages
Imagery and verbal processes.
The achieving society.
Myth
Cognitive-Behavior Modification
The Uses of Enchantment
Levels of processing
Cognitive, social, and physiological determinants of emotional state.
The structure of scientific revolutions
Structural anthropology
Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays
Societal structures of the mind
Civilization and Its Discontents
Civilization and Its Discontents
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Nature and functions of belief systems
Clinical psychologists in the 1970s
Bridging science and values
Design for evolution
Essays on a Science of Mythology
Dreams and Human Potential
A Note on the Peak Experience as a Personal Myth
Motivation and the cognitive revolution
Psychology as a means of promoting human welfare
The social construction of reality
The Forgotten Language. An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales and Myths
The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist
The Masks of God
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 1980 - 1998 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |