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Art as medicine : creating a therapy of the imagination / Shaun McNiff.

By: McNiff, Shaun.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Boston ; London : [New York] : Shambhala ; Distributed in the U.S. by Random House, 1992Edition: 1st ed.Description: 235p.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0877736588 (pbk) :; 9780877736585.Subject(s): Art therapy | Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- Therapeutic use | Imagery (Psychology) -- Therapeutic use | Psychotherapy | History of art | Psychotherapy | Popular psychology | Art therapyDDC classification: 615.85156 MCN | 615.85156
Contents:
Part One: Context: Simple beginnings -- Shamanic continuities -- Attunement to the Archetupal -- A link to the "Art World" -- Psyche's movement -- Imaginal realism -- Artist and angel -- The daimonic tradition -- Part Two: Dialoguing and other methods: Loquent meditations -- Creation stories -- Responding -- Talking with images -- The value of dialogue -- Performance -- Dreaming -- Part Three Demonstration: Image dialogues.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A pioneering art therapist extolls the arts as a powerful tool in psychotherapy, describing how activating the imagination can heal the mind, heart, and soul

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.

"Whenever illness is associated with loss of soul," writes Shaun McNiff, "the arts emerge spontaneously as remedies, soul medicine."

Art as Medicine demonstrates how the imagination heals and renews itself through this natural process. Author Shaun McNiff 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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-230) and index.

Part One: Context: Simple beginnings -- Shamanic continuities -- Attunement to the Archetupal -- A link to the "Art World" -- Psyche's movement -- Imaginal realism -- Artist and angel -- The daimonic tradition -- Part Two: Dialoguing and other methods: Loquent meditations -- Creation stories -- Responding -- Talking with images -- The value of dialogue -- Performance -- Dreaming -- Part Three Demonstration: Image dialogues.

CIT Module SOCI 6016 - Core reading.

MTU Cork Module ARTS 9003 - Supplementary reading.

CIT Module ARTS 9001 - Core reading.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Shaun McNiff is internationally recognized as a founder and leading figure in the arts and healing field. University Professor at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he is past president of the American Art Therapy Association and the author of several other books including Art As Medicine , Trust the Process , and Creating with Others .