Johnson, Scott2014-03-142014-03-141991-04-05etd-07282008-135409http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28438The examination of literature and art has been one of psychotherapy's most powerful ways of explicating its theories and disseminating its concepts. In this study, I have explored various concepts of family psychotherapy by applying them to three works of imaginative literature, and one work of sculpture: Luigi Pirandello's play, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Franz Kafka's novella, The Metamorphosis, Robinson Jeffers' poem, "The Purse-Seine," and the ancient Roman sculpture, the Laocoon.vi, 129 leavesBTDapplication/pdfenIn CopyrightLD5655.V856 1991.J646Family psychotherapyPsychoanalysis and artPsychoanalysis and literatureDissertationhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07282008-135409/