Self-healing through visual and verbal art therapy / R.M. Simon ; edited by S.A. Graham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simon, R. M. (Rita M.), 1921-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art therapy.

Self-care, Health.

Physical Description:

78 sider

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-26203-6

9786610262038

1-84642-131-4

OCLC:

476047113