In Beyond Therapy, Erving Polster examines the role of "life focus" in three of society's most familiar activities: ordinary conversation, the arts, and religion

Erving Polster

Acknowledgements

Section A. The Importance of Life Focus

1 What I Mean By Life Focus

2 The Drama of the Split Mind

3 Life as Microcosm

4 A Focus Revolution

Section B. How Life Focus Groups Work

5 Life Focus Community: Design Ideas

6 Artful Engagement

7 Themes that Mark a Lifetime

8 Communal Setting

Section C. Social Implications of Life Focus

9 From the Supernatural to the Human: Part 1

10 From the Supernatural to the Human: Part 2

11 A Psychotherapeutic Morality

12 Dependable Identity

13 Belonging and Indivisibility

14 A Social Trust

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