Imagining Animals: Art, Psychotherapy and Primitive States of MindTaylor & Francis, 2005 - 241 pages Imagining Animals explores the making of animal images in art therapy and child psychotherapy. It examines two contrasting primitive states of mind: the investing of the world about us with life through animism and participation mystique, and the lifeless world of autistic states of mind encountered in children who are hard to reach. Caroline Case examines how the emergence of animal imagery in therapy can act as a powerful catalyst for children in autistic states of mind, or with a background of trauma, abuse or depression. She also looks at animal / human relationships, and animal symbolism, as well as three-dimensional claywork and the development of personality. Subjects covered include: * animals on stage in therapy - anthropomorphic animal objects The book concludes with a compelling extended case study, which describes analytic work with a child with multiple symptoms, using the various therapeutic tools of play and art, painting and clay, and the development of character, plot and narrative. |
Contents
Working with children who are hard | 3 |
An animal alphabet of our actual and symbolic relationship | 17 |
anthropomorphic animal objects | 31 |
the beautiful and the sublime | 47 |
Closeness and separation | 69 |
helpful images with | 79 |
The location of self in animals | 95 |
analytical approaches | 110 |
From calm to chaos and rage | 151 |
Things that go bump in the night the fish pictures and | 156 |
The heart and the bone | 179 |
Working towards the end of therapy and conclusions | 200 |
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Imagining Animals: Art, Psychotherapy and Primitive States of Mind Caroline Case Limited preview - 2014 |
Imagining Animals: Art, Psychotherapy and Primitive States of Mind Caroline Case Limited preview - 2014 |
Imagining Animals: Art, Psychotherapy and Primitive States of Mind Caroline Case No preview available - 2005 |
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References to this book
The Past in the Present: Therapy Enactments and the Return of Trauma David Mann,Valerie Cunningham No preview available - 2009 |
The Emotional Experience of Adoption: A Psychoanalytic Perspective Debbie Hindle,Graham Shulman No preview available - 2008 |