Humanistic Martha

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This paper is a case summary of the fictional character of Martha from Edward Albee's award-winning 1962 play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf." The paper is presented from the point of view of the therapist, a practitioner of humanistic psychology.

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"As described by Albee, Martha is a large, boisterous woman of 52, looking somewhat younger. She is ample, but not fleshy. Albee (1963) calls Martha an amply-endowed earth-mother with only her husband to oversee, a man she refers to as "the shadow of a man flickering around the edges of a house" (p. 226). Martha's background offers insight into her present emotional state and behavior. She has a loud and abrasive attitude. Martha is loud and aggressive, and does everything possible to make herself noticed. She is abusive most of the time but that is because she is afraid of being ignored. Her mother died when she was very young, and she was raised by her father."

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