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"Love
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books
Hypochondria
The Dinosaur Man and
Other Tales From the Back Ward
Confiding: A Psychotherapist
and Her Patients Search for Stories to Live
By
The Intimate Hour: Love
and Sex in Psychotherapy
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Baur, S. (1988).
Hypochondria: Woeful Imaginings
Berkeley, CA.: University of California
Press. (Spanish ed., 1989; German, 1990
Japanese.) |
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Hypochondriacs believe they are physically
ill when, in fact, the source of their
problems is elsewhere. Hypochondria
illuminates the processes by which these
individuals come to adopt and maintain
illness as a way of life. Its cast
of characters includes such well known
individuals as the evolutionist Charles
Darwin, the lexicographer Samuel Johnson,
and the poet Sara Teasdale, along
with others drawn from history, literature,
and contemporary life. Writing
with grace, humor, and respect, Baur
explains convincingly why some people
unconsciously exchange common fears
for physical aches and pains.
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Baur, S. (1991).
The
Dinosaur Man Dinosaur Man and Other
Tales From the Back Ward
New York: Harper Collins. (also
Italian, Dutch, German, Swedish, French
and
Spanish eds.) (Book optioned by Paramount/
Jodie Foster.)
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“Stick to polite conversation, wash,
and keep your fly zipped up.” At Mountain
Valley Hospital, this is what Susan
Baur is supposed to convince her schizophrenic
patients to do. But when she arrives
on ward 9-2-D and is mistaken for
a dinosaur, she begins to question the
behavioral approach. Like most
who work with the chronic mentally ill,
she expects to be kept at bay by their
pervasive thought disorders. Instead,
she becomes enchanted by the accounts
of the patients in her care--of the
Dinosaur Man, the flying Dr. Sweetheart,
the man who gives the gift of the holy
green light--and listens spellbound
to the poetry and pain behind their
bizarre stories. The Dinosaur Man
is a collection of beautifully rendered
tales that explore the world of delusional
patients--stories of courage and enchantment
that ask vital
questions about survival and love.
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Baur, S. (1994)
Confiding:
A Psychotherapist and Her Patients Search
for Stories to Live By
New York: HarperCollins.
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In Confiding, Susan Baur continues to
discuss her lively, unconventional approach
to therapy and examines a theme introduced
in The Dinosaur Man: How the stories
we believe about ourselves shape our
lives. She discusses how these
stories provide us with our identities
and influence our future. Using case
histories, personal insight, and theory,
she shows how the stories we tell
about ourselves are used to form relationships
with other people and to sustain
us when we are alone.
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Baur, S. (1997)
The Intimate Hour: Love and Sex
in in Psychotherapy
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. (also
Dutch and Brazilian eds.)
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Drawing on hundreds of instances of
mutual doctor-patient attraction drawn from
interviews with patients, therapists,
and clergy as well as historical annals,
Susan Baur shows that the stories they
tell about their relationships are
rarely simple abuse or straightforward
love. Although she clearly states
that sex has no place in therapy, she
points out that most intimate doctor-patient
relationships take place after therapy
has stopped, and do a mixture of
hurtful and helpful things. However
the relationship is labeled, however,
the participants have no place to turn
for advice for fear of scandal
and professional censure. With uncommon
empathy for their dilemma, Baur
lets the happy, unhappy, and ambivalent
tell their stories. |
(Two books on the history of oceanography--The
Edge of an Unfamiliar World and On Almost
Any Wind: the Saga of the R/V Atlantis--under
my formerly married name, Susan Schlee.)
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PRAISE
FOR SUSAN BAUR’S PREVIOUS BOOKS
DINOSAUR
MAN AND OTHER TALES FROM THE BACK
WARD
“Eloquent sympathy....
What comes through most clearly...are
the many voices of the lovable, comic,
tormented patients... They become
characters who have the power to move
and to teach.”
The New York Times Book Review
HYPOCHONDRIA:
Woeful Imagination
“A mixture of medical
history, popular science, and intelligent
general reflection.”
The New York Times
“Impressive scholarship...gracefully
written and accessible. The author1s
horrific case histories are relentlessly
entertaining, and her interpretations
ring true.”
The New York Times Book Review
CONFIDING:
A Psychotherapist and Her Patients
Search for Stories to Life By
“Joining the ranks of writer-healers
as Anthony Storr and Irvin D. Yalom,
Baur transcends the narrative architecture
of most psych-lit with the reach of
her humanity and the stylistic grace
of her prose.”
The Boston Globe
“Brilliant and passionate examination
of how the stories we tell aboutourselves
shape our lives.”
The Los Angeles Times Book Review
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