Welcome to the first of a series of additional sessions to our main ones. In these, we will be making short detours from our journey through the history of psychology to look in detail at some of the best examples of psychology in fiction. We are beginning today with a work I have mentioned before (and which quite possibly sparked my own interest in psychology) the British sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf.
Question 1:
How would…
…you describe the couch to someone else?
…someone else describe it to you?
…the couch describe itself?
(Please read on for answers)
Welcome to our eighth session. Please come in and make yourself comfortable.
Following on from showing and telling last time, today we are looking at who can do the showing and telling in a story and the different ways they can use to do it. This is a story’s narrative viewpoint or, more commonly, its point-of-view. Writers have a lot of different options to choose from with viewpoints and we are going to look at what all of them can offer to a story. In our journey through the history of psychology, we are heading further east to India, where we be learning what the founder(s) of another great world religion can teach us about it. Please choose a place where you can see as much as you want to, and let’s begin.
The Psychiatrist's Couch 