Mindscapes : the psyche in the landscape / Vittorio Lingiardi ; translated by Abigail Asher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lingiardi, Vittorio, 1960- author.

Contributor:

Asher, Abigail, translator.

Series:

Psychological issues

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Landscapes--Psychological aspects.

Landscapes.

Nature (Aesthetics)--Psychological aspects.

Nature (Aesthetics).

psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

xvi, 162 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First English edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.

Summary:

"This book explores the links between the psyche and the landscape-on the continuum that runs from our mental world inside to our surrounding world outside. Our sense of self is shaped by our environment, while it also helps to create the environment we perceive. Looking to the fields of psychoanalysis, of literature, of art history and of neuro-aesthetics-taking from both Harold Searles and Donald Winnicott, from both Emily Dickinson and Rainer Maria Rilke, from both Claude Monet and Gustav Klimt, from both Semir Zeki and V.S. Ramachandran-author Vittorio Lingiardi urges us to articulate the idea of landscape as a place that we seek all over the world, a place that serves as a psychological scaffolding for, and a reminder of, something that's already inside us. It is a discovery, but also an invention, a return-to-home. Rivers, mountains, oceans, ancient ruins or small towns: these places inhabit our minds and our dreams, and (like psychic objects) they are embedded in our memory and our unconscious. This book will appeal to psychoanalysts and therapists of all kinds-and to any reader who wants to understand the deep links between ourselves and our landscape in therapy and in everyday life"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Human flourishing

2. Psychoanalytic spaces

3. Being in the world

4. Pocket full of butterflies

5. Neuroaesthetic landscapes

6. Face and landscapes ("that's where I would like to live")

7.Amor loci

8. Close your eyes and you'll see

9. This landscape is my father

10. Reverberation

11. The therapist as gardener

12.Dis-oriented

13. Invisible landscape

14. Farewell

Notes:

"First Italian edition published by Raffaello Cortina Editore 2017 © 2017, Raffaello Cortina Editore. First English edition published by Routledge 2025."

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Lingiardi, Vittorio, 1960- Mindscapes

ISBN:

9781032181240

1032181249

9781032181257

1032181257

OCLC:

1458443385