The Revealing Image : Analytical Art Psychotherapy in Theory and Practice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schaverien, Joy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art therapy.

Transference (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1999.

Summary:

Schaverien painstakingly describes and defines "processes which have so far only been intuitively known to art therapists" (p6) by introducing and elaborating the psychoanalytical concepts of transference and countertransference in relation to the use of visual art objects. The authors stated intention in this book is "to attempt to bridge the perceived gap between the practice of art therapy and analytical forms of psychotherapy..."(p 229) The epistemological base of this venture includes the fields of philosophy, anthropology, and aesthetics, as well as psychoanalysis.Schaverien suggests that analytical art psychotherapy is a way of working analytically with patients who are unsuitable, or unready, for psychotherapy, giving examples of psychotic and borderline patients, children, and patients in psychiatric settings.This is primarily a book about an analytical approach within art therapy, which may be of interest in itself. The material also raises issues of interest to analysts and psychotherapists, whether or not they work with art in the clinical setting. The book clarifies areas of similarity between the disciplines, and also makes areas of difference apparent. For example, most analysts would agree that visual art, like dream material, and other non-verbal representations of the inner world, can at times articulate and communicate meanings which for one reason or another cannot be verbally articulated at the time, and that this can be pertinent to the aim of analysis. However, I think few analysts would include facilities in their consulting rooms for the kind of art processes described in the book.When the analyst is working with materials in this form, the book will be extremely helpful in sorting out the complexity of the transference situation and the role of interpretation. The book is so strongly grounded in experiences emerging in the presence of actual art processes and objects that I think it will be of most interest to those who are interested in the specific clinical issues involved in relating to the making and use of actual art objects within the setting. Schaverien not only describes the processes involved in detail, but also presents technical approaches to the making and handling of art objects within the setting which will inform the capacity of those who are not trained as art therapists to relate to this kind of material in the consulting room.'

Contents:

Title Page

Epigraph

Contents

List of illustrations

Preface

Definition of terms

Introduction

1 Transference and countertransference

2 The scapegoat transference

3 The picture within the frame

4 The life in the picture: the embodied image

5 The life of the picture: transference

6 The life of the picture: mediation and interpretation

7 The talisman: the empowered picture

8 The scapegoat and the talisman transference: a case study

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Name index

Subject index

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Acknowledgements

Dedication

Copyright

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Other Format:

Print version: Schaverien, Joy The Revealing Image

ISBN:

9781839974311

OCLC:

1285780297