Art As Medicine Creating a Therapy of the Imagination

Name: Art As Medicine Creating a Therapy of the Imagination
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ISBN: 9780877736585

ISBN-10: 0877736588

ISBN-13: 9780877736585

Edition: 1992

Authors: Shaun McNiff

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"Whenever illness is associated with loss of soul," writes Shaun McNiff, "the arts emerge spontaneously as remedies, soul medicine." The medicine of the artist, like that of the shaman, arises from his or her relationship to "familiars"-the themes, methods, and materials that interact with the artist through the creative process.Art As Medicinedemonstrates how the imagination heals and renews itself through this natural process. The author describes his pioneering methods of art therapy-including interpretation through performance and storytelling, creative collaboration, and dialoguing with images-and the ways in which they can revitalize both psychotherapy and art itself.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/20/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.90" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Context


Simple Beginnings


Shamanic Continuities


Attunement to the Archetypal


A Link to the "Art World"


Psyche's Movement


Imaginal Realism


Artist and Angel


The Daimonic Tradition



Dialoguing and Other Methods


Loquent Meditations


Creation Stories


Responding


Talking with Images


The Value of Dialogue


Performance


Dreaming



Demonstration


Image Dialogues


Bibliography


Index