Self-healing through visual and verbal art therapy /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
R.M. Simon ; edited by S.A. Graham.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Philadelphia :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2005.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (78 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (page 75) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Cover; Self-Healing Through Visual and Verbal Art Therapy; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; THE HAZARDOUS JOURNEY; PREFACE; Introduction; 1 A Brief History; 2 Joe's Drawings; 3 Discussion of Joe's Drawings; 4 Comparing Visual and Verbal Imagery; 5 Joe's Stories; 6 Discussion of Joe's Stories; 7 Considerations of the Way in Which a Disturbed State was Resolved; 8 Summary; REFERENCES; INDEX.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Self-Healing Through Visual and Verbal Art Therapy explores the therapeutic properties of visual and verbal creativity and its capacity to act as a natural means of self-healing. Drawing on Freud's and Winnicott's work on psychoanalysis and play, R.M. Simon illustrates the healing power of art-making with the drawings and stories of seven-year-old Joe, who succeeds in overcoming the trauma of family break-up by expressing his emotional turmoil outside the formal therapeutic process. The progress from symbolising unconscious distress to verbalising and becoming conscious of (and able to deal wi.
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Title
Self-healing through visual and verbal art therapy.