On art and therapy : an exploration / Martina Thomson ; foreword by Bernard Cohen.
By: Thomson, Martina.
Contributor(s): Cohen, Bernard.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Free Association Books, 1997Description: 137 p. ; 23 cm + pbk.ISBN: 1853433683.Subject(s): Medicine | Art | Art therapyDDC classification: 615.85156Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The term art therapy was coined when it was recognized that painting, drawing and modelling had healing effects on people. The early practitioners saw themselves as facilitators in setting free a spontaneous inaginative activity. In this text the author makes a plea for the therapist to return to a trust in the therapeutic value of the creative process itself. Drawing on her memories of working with some of the pioneers of art therapy, and on her own experience as a painter and as an art therapy practitionar, her argument surfaces through observation, speculation, case history and quotations from artists, poets and analysts.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The teaching of art -- E. M. Lyddiatt -- Edward Adamson and before -- Drawing and painting in psychotherapy -- Picasso and Wolfli -- Aesthetic evaluations -- Communication and response -- Being seen - D. W. Winnicott -- Formlessness: an essential stage -- Training at St Albans -- A brief history of art therapy -- The blank page -- The creative process - Ehrenzweig -- The encounter with art materials -- Colour - within and without -- Modelling and models -- Lines and boundaries -- Recognition -- Words and pictures -- Symbol and image.
CIT Module SOCI 6016 - Core reading.
CIT Module PLAC 9006 - Core Reading.