Trauma, tragedy, therapy : the arts and human suffering / Stephen K. Levine ; foreword by Shaun McNiff.
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- Author/Creator:
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- Language:
- English
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- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (212 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Stephen K. Levine's book explores the nature of traumatic experience and the therapeutic role of the arts and arts therapies in responding to it. It suggests that by re-imagining painful and tragic experiences through art-making, we may release their fixity and negative hold on our lives and resist the temptation to assume the role of the victim.
- Contents:
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- FRONT COVER; Trauma, Tragedy, Therapy:The Arts and Human Suffering; Contents; Foreword by shaun mcniff; 1 Introduction; Part I: From Trauma to Tragedy; 2 Going to the Ground; 3 Mimetic Wounds; 4 Trauma, Therapy and the Arts; Part II: Chaos into Form; 5 Order and Chaos in Therapy and the Arts; 6Is Order Enough? Is Chaos too Much?; 7The Expressive Body; 8The Second Coming; 9The Art of Despair; 10Researching Imagination - Imagining Research; 11A Fragmented Totality?; Part III: Poiesis after Post-Modernism; 12Poiesis and Praxis; 13Be Like Jacques; 14What Can I Say, Dear, After I Say I'm Sorry?
- REFERENCESSUBJECT INDEX; AUTHOR INDEX; back cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
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- 1-282-39296-4
- 9786612392962
- 0-85700-193-0
- OCLC:
- 490163291
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