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Seymour was born on May 13, 1922, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
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Body Image and Personality
(Explores the origins in family life, importance to psycho...)
Explores the origins in family life, importance to psychological and physical health, and measurement of an individual's concept of his own body.
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1968
Female Orgasm: Psychology, Physiology, Fantasy
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1973
Sexual Images of the Self: the Psychology of Erotic Sensations and Illusions by Seymour Fisher (1989-08-01)
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1980
The Scientific Credibility of Freud's Theories and Therapy
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1985
The Psychology of Adaptation To Absurdity: Tactics of Make-believe - Kindle edition by Seymour Fisher, Rhoda L. Fisher, Rhoda Fisher. Health, Fitness & Dieting Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
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The major goal of this book is to explore and integrate all that is scientifically known about the utility of magical plans and strategies for coping with life's inevitable absurdities. Make-believe has great adaptive value and helps the average individual to function better in cultures saturated with puzzling contradictions. This book traces the origins of pretending (illusion-construction) and the developmental phases of this skill. Further, it analyzes how parents depend on pretending to secure conformity and self-control from their children. It unravels the ways in which make-believe is utilized to defend against death-anxiety and feelings of fragility. It examines the relationship between pretending and the classical defense mechanisms -- and particularly weighs the evidence bearing on the potential protective power of embracing religious beliefs. Finally, it defines the diverse contributions of make-believe to the construction of the self-concept, the defensive maneuvers typifying psychopathology, and the maintenance of somatic health. In short, this book pulls together a spectrum of scientific information concerning the defensive value of illusory make-believe in coping with those aspects of life -- such as death, loss, suffering, and injustice -- that are experienced as unreasonable and beyond understanding. The volume is unique not only in the breadth of the literature it analyzes but also in demonstrating the contribution of make-believe to both the psychological and somatic aspects of behavior. No previous work has documented in such detail and across so many domains how basic the capacity to engage in make-believe is to human adaptation.
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2014
Seymour Fisher
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Seymour Fisher In his early career, he worked for the Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute before becoming chief psychologist at the Elgin State Hospital in 1949. A research psychologist at Houston’s Veterans Administration Hospital from 1952 until 1956, he was a research investigator and associate professor at the Baylor University College of Medicine from 1957 until 1961 when he went to the State University of New York Upstate Medical Center. He served the Center as a professor and as head of its psychology research division. During his career, he also found time to write books, several with his wife. Dr. Rhoda L. Fisher, who also studied psychology. Among their books are "What We Really Know about Child Rearing" and "Pretend the World Is Funny and Forever: A Psychological Analysis of Comedians, Clowns, and Actors."
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The Psychology of Adaptation To Absurdity: Tactics of Make-believe - Kindle edition by Seymour Fisher, Rhoda L. Fisher, Rhoda Fisher. Health, Fitness & Dieting Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
(The major goal of this book is to explore and integrate a...)
2014 -
Body Image and Personality
(Explores the origins in family life, importance to psycho...)
1968 - Female Orgasm: Psychology, Physiology, Fantasy 1973
- The Scientific Credibility of Freud's Theories and Therapy 1985
- Sexual Images of the Self: the Psychology of Erotic Sensations and Illusions by Seymour Fisher (1989-08-01) 1980
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The Psychology of Adaptation To Absurdity: Tactics of Make-believe - Kindle edition by Seymour Fisher, Rhoda L. Fisher, Rhoda Fisher. Health, Fitness & Dieting Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
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December 5, 1996 (aged 74) -
Resting place
Woodlawn Cemetery Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York, USA -
Nationality
United States
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1949 - 1952
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1952 - 1956
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1957 - 1961