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Art as medicine : creating a therapy of the imagination /

By: Publication details: Boston : Shambhala, 1992.Description: 235 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0877736588
  • 9780877736585
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RC 489 MCN
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Book Book Whitecliffe Library Arts Therapy Arts Therapy RC 489 MCN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0005655
Book Book Whitecliffe Library Arts Therapy Arts Therapy RC 489 MCN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available 0005656
Book Book Whitecliffe Library Arts Therapy Arts Therapy RC 489 MCN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 3 Available Donated by Glenese Blake, 2018. 0016341
Book 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.

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