Art as medicine : creating a therapy of the imagination /
Publication details: Boston : Shambhala, 1992.Description: 235 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 0877736588
- 9780877736585
- RC 489 MCN
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Book | Whitecliffe Library Arts Therapy | Arts Therapy | RC 489 MCN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0005655 | |||
Book | Whitecliffe Library Arts Therapy | Arts Therapy | RC 489 MCN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 2 | Available | 0005656 | |||
Book | Whitecliffe Library Arts Therapy | Arts Therapy | RC 489 MCN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 3 | Available | Donated by Glenese Blake, 2018. | 0016341 | ||
Book | Whitecliffe Library Arts Therapy | Arts Therapy | RC 489 MCN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 4 | Available | Donated by Anna-Michele Hantler, 2022. | 0014108 |
Part One: Context -- Simple beginnings -- Shamanic continuities -- Attunement to the archetypal -- A link to the "art world" -- Psyche's movement -- Imaginal realism -- Artist and angel -- The Daimonic tradition -- Part Two: Dialoguing and other methods -- Loquent meditations -- creation stories -- Responding -- Talking with images -- A value of dialogue -- Performance -- Dreaming -- Part Three: Demonstration -- Image dialogues.
This book demonstrates how the imagination heals and renews itself through natural processes. The author describes his pioneering methods of art therapy, including interpretation through performance and storytelling, creative collaboration, and dialoguing with images, and the ways in which they can revitalise both psychotherapy and art itself.