Art as medicine : creating a therapy of the imagination / Shaun McNiff.
By: McNiff, Shaun
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BookPublisher: Boston ; London : Shambhala, 1992Description: 235 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0877736588.Subject(s): Art therapy | Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Therapeutic use | Imagery (Psychology) -- Therapeutic use | PsychotherapyDDC classification: 615.85156 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A pioneering art therapist extolls the arts as a powerful tool in psychotherapy, describing how activating the imagination can heal the mind, heart, and soul
The medicine of the artist, like that of the shaman, arises from his or her relationship to "familiars"-the themes, methods, and materials that interact with the artist through the creative process.
"Whenever illness is associated with loss of soul," writes Shaun McNiff, "the arts emerge spontaneously as remedies, soul medicine."
Art as Medicine demonstrates how the imagination heals and renews itself through this natural process. Author Shaun McNiff 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 revitalize both psychotherapy and art itself.
Bibliography: p. 227-230. - Includes index.
Part One: Context: Simple beginnings -- Shamanic continuities -- Attunement to the Archetupal -- 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 -- The value of dialogue -- Performance -- Dreaming -- Part Three Demonstration: Image dialogues.
CIT Module SOCI 6016 - Core reading.
MTU Cork Module ARTS 9003 - Supplementary reading.
CIT Module ARTS 9001 - Core reading.