Themes in Barker’s Regeneration, based on our class conversation about four topics (doctor/patient relationship; parenting; personal relationships, gender roles, and sexual desire; art and the imagination):

• Need for an awareness of self, seeing reflection of others in self
  
• Helping others also helps self (depending on methods)
  
• Authority of the doctor/patient relationship is not absolute
  
• Masculinity and society's perception: how society is run by the "fathers" and they instill a certain perception about how to act, how to live
  
• Degree of parents' influence on children's gender roles
  
• Possibility for older and younger generations to co-exist, to agree (Rivers)
  
• Conditions of war reveal the line between types of love (platonic/sexual)
  
• Role reversal made possible by war: Growth of women's independence, (some) restrictions placed on men
  
• Love, not just sexual fulfillment, is possible in war
  
• How therapy is different for each person, how people heal at different paces (Burns)
  
• Therapy possible for all
  
• Art provides therapy
• Art needs to engage with present moment (war)
  
• Ambivalent power of the imagination
  
• Role of imagination in dreams, & therefore its therapeutic effect
  
• And more....