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The Arts and Psychotherapy [electronic resource].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McNiff, Shaun.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art Therapy.
- Arts--Therapeutic use.
- Dance Therapy.
- Mental Disorders -- therapy.
- Music Therapy.
- Arts.
- Psychotherapy.
- Rehabilitation.
- Sensory Art Therapies.
- Psychiatry.
- Exercise Movement Techniques.
- Complementary Therapies.
- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities.
- Therapeutics.
- Physical Therapy Modalities.
- Mental Disorders.
- Medical Subjects:
- Psychotherapy.
- Rehabilitation.
- Sensory Art Therapies.
- Psychiatry.
- Exercise Movement Techniques.
- Complementary Therapies.
- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities.
- Therapeutics.
- Physical Therapy Modalities.
- Dance Therapy.
- Mental Disorders.
- Art Therapy.
- Music Therapy.
- Local Subjects:
- Art Therapy.
- Arts--Therapeutic use.
- Dance Therapy.
- Mental Disorders -- therapy.
- Music Therapy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Springfield : Charles C Thomas, 1981.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- By Shaun McNiff, Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts. A unique perspective of expressive arts as psychotherapy is presented. The author stresses the unity of the arts therapies in a theoretical and operational approach that is firmly rooted in the historical continuities and essential meaning of art. He shows how contemporary therapies involving oral and written language, movement and dance, sound and music, visual imagery, and drama correspond to ancient, cross-cultural, even universal attempts at psychic healing. Current practices in all of the arts therapies are described in light of t
- Contents:
- HALF TITLE: THE ARTS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY; TITLE PAGE: THE ARTS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY; OVERVIEW; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CONTENTS; Chapter 1: THE ENDURING SHAMAN; Chapter 2: MOTIVES AND NEEDS; Chapter 3: OBSTACLES TO EXPRESSION; Chapter 4: PREPARATION; Chapter 5: ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE; Chapter 6: MOVEMENT, DANCE, AND THE BODY; Chapter 7: SOUND AND MUSIC; Chapter 8: VISUAL IMAGERY; Chapter 9: DRAMA; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-398-08173-5
- OCLC:
- 700701978
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