Mary target biography
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Mary Hepworth
Mary Hepworth PhD (formerly Mary Target) is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist, and Professor of Psychoanalysis at UCL.
Mary set up and ran the MSc in Theoretical Psychoanalytic Studies in the Unit for 20 years 1996-2016. She is now part-time, and continues to teach and supervise UCL students on this Masters programme, and the PhD programme. She is primary supervisor to three PhD students, and has supervised 26 successfully completed PhDs. Her current PhD students are carrying out research on: the subjective meaning of anorexia nervosa to children who are chronic sufferers, and to their parents; children's experience of parents’ divorce; and psychoanalytic theories and clinical attitudes to homosexuality. Her own research focuses on social and emotional development and attachment, personality functioning in adulthood, the process and outcome of psychotherapies for children, adults and couples, and qualitative research on the experience of illness.
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Caryll Houselander: A Biography - bygd Mary Frances Coady (Paperback)
About the Book
"A biography of the elusive 20th-century English writer who wrote such classics of Catholic spirituality as The Reed of God and The Flowering Tree"--
Book Synopsis
This biography tells the life of the elusive 20th-century English writer, Caryll Houselander, who saved no anställda letters (although, fortunately, others saved their letters from her) and left only her books, which included a short autobiography, a few classics of Catholic spirituality, and some unpublished personal scratchings. She never had robust health, and mentally she had the tendency to live in her own world. Her one aim in life, as she discovered from adolescence onward (although it would take many years for her to state it this way), was to see the suffering Christ in humanity. The opportunity for this discovery had already been given to her: a broken home, which she experienced at the age of 9, and thus she an
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Mary Boykin Chesnut - (Southern Biography) by Elisabeth S Muhlenfeld (Paperback)
Book Synopsis
"In her admirable biography of Mary Chesnut, Elisabeth Muhlenfeld has American literature as well as American history in her debt." -- C. Vann Woodward
Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823--1886) is known today for her excellent firsthand account of life in the Confederate States of America. A Diary from Dixie (republished in 1981 as Mary Chesnut's Civil War)is far more than a simple diary, however, for Mrs. Chesnut's drawing room was a social center for many of the most prominent political and military figures in the Confederacy. Elisabeth Muhlenfeld's expert biography utilizes Mrs. Chesnut's autobiographical writings, her papers, and those of her family, as well as published sources. It traces her life in South Carolina from her childhood, as the daughter of a governor and United States senator, through her schooling and her marriage to James Chesnut, Jr., the son of a wealthy Sout