| Description |
1 online resource (78 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 75) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. The progress from symbolising unconscious distress to verbalising and becoming conscious of (and able to deal wi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Art therapy.
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Art therapy. |
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Self-care, Health.
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Self-care, Health. |
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Art Therapy. |
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Child. |
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Self Care. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Graham, S. A.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Simon, R.M. (Rita M.), 1921- Self-healing through visual and verbal art therapy. London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2005 1843103443 (DLC) 2005003015 (OCoLC)57577443 |
| ISBN |
1846421314 (electronic book) |
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9781846421310 (electronic book) |
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