Mentalizing in arts therapies / by Marianne Verfaille.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verfaille, Marianne, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy.

Mental healing.

Self-perception.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book describes the use of therapeutic art, music, and dance interventions against a background of mentalization, thus forging a link between arts therapies and mentalization-based treatment. This book has its roots in the theory of Mentalization Based Treatment by Antony Bateman and Peter Fonagy, and combines the broad experience of many art therapists with art, music and dance/movement therapy in psychiatric settings in the treatment of adults and adolescents both individually and in groups, as well as children with disorganised attachment. As a treatment concept, mentalization is quite straightforward because mentalizing is a typically human ability. As Bateman and Fonagy (2012) say: "Without mentalizing there can be no robust sense of self, no constructive social interaction, no mutuality in relationships, and no sense of personal security". On the other hand, it is not so simple to fully grasp the significance of mentalization. Mentalization-based therapy is a specific type of psychotherapy designed to help people reflect on their own thoughts and feelings and differentiate them from the perspectives of others.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; PART I THEORY; CHAPTER ONE What is mentalizing?; CHAPTER TWO We learn from the outside in, through the mind of another person; CHAPTER THREE First we learn the how, and later we learn the what; CHAPTER FOUR Attachment; CHAPTER FIVE Terms; CHAPTER SIX "Techniques"; PART II PRACTICE; CHAPTER SEVEN Mentalizing in arts therapies; CHAPTER EIGHT The art therapist and the mentalizing stance; CHAPTER NINE A case history: Ellen in art and music therapy

CHAPTER TEN Thumbnail sketches using art as reverse mirroring: the imagination of the artist touches something in the clientCHAPTER ELEVEN A case history: psychomotor therapy and dance and movement therapy; CHAPTER TWELVE A case history: Ted's creative process; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Forms of group work that promote mentalizing; GLOSSARY; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

"First published in Dutch in 2011 as Mentaliseren in beeldende vaktherapie by Garant Publishers, Antwerp-Apeldoorn"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 25, 2016).

ISBN:

0-429-91624-8

0-429-90201-8

0-429-47724-4

1-78241-381-2

9780429477249

OCLC:

934770788