Nathan Field

The Complete Trilogy

The Many

John Webster

John Fletcher

Cyril Tourneur

Francis Beaumont

Philip Massinger

A Critical Edition of Ms. Dyce 9 (1625)

The Honest Mans Fortune

The Honest Man's Fortune is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy written by Nathan Field, John Fletcher, and Philip Massinger. It was apparently the earliest of the works produced by this trio of writers, the others being The Queen of Corinth and The Knight of Malta.In 1952 Johan Gerritsen published a critical edition specifically of the manuscript version of the play, covering essential aspects of the subject. (Gerritsen assigned the play to Field, Fletcher, and Tourneur.) More recently, the play has attracted critical attention for its treatment of sexual themes, what one commentator has called "the faithful page/loving heroine/boy player/catamite nexus."

The Honest Man's Fortune

Using vivid examples from his psychotherapeutic practice the author shows how, with the apparent breakdown of the therapeutic method itself, patients can break through to a new level of functioning.

Psychotherapy in a New Dimension

Breakdown and Breakthrough

The Fatal Dowry

Jo Cooke

Thomas May

Thomas Tomkis

“A” Select Collection of Old English Plays

It is widely recognised that in many cases you have to get worse before you get better. In mental illness, too, some degree of breakdown must be experienced prior to making a new beginning.

A Tragedy, in Five Acts

Breakdown and Breakthrough examines the essential role of regression in the patient's recovery from mental illness. In light of this Nathan Field reassesses the role of the therapist tracing psychotherapy back to its earliest spiritual roots and comparing modern analytic methods with ancient practices of healing and exorcism. The author uses vivid examples from his psychotherapeutic practice to show how, with the apparent breakdown of the therapeutic method itself, patients can break through to a new level of functioning. The book goes on to consider how psychotherapy has been affected by fundamental developments in twentieth century science, such as the move from old, classical assumptions of linear causation to non-linear complexity from reductionism to a holistic systems approach and from mental mechanisms to acknowledging the mysteries of unconscious interaction. Taking up the radical vision originally proposed by Carl Jung and later fostered by eminent psychotherapists such as Winnicott and Bion, the author shows how psychotherapy can be reframed to admit the existence of a psychological fourth dimension. Nathan Field reappraises ideas of health and pathology, psychoanalysis and healing, sex and spirituality in light of a dramatic shift in the way we understand ourselves. How this shift alters the shape of psychotherapy in the twenty-first century is the challenge the practitioners, teachers and trainees must all address.

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