Caroline Case

Imagining Animals

Art, Psychotherapy and Primitive States of Mind

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Imagining Animals offers a unique insight into the role and representation of animal imagery in art therapy and child psychotherapy, which will be of interest to all arts and play therapists working with children

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781583919576
• ISBN-10: 1583919570
• Artikelnr.: 37186028

Autorenporträt

Caroline Case is an analytical art therapist in private practice and a child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Knowle Clinic, Bristol. She is co-author of The Handbook of Art Therapy and co-editor of Working with Children in Art Therapy

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction: Working with Children who are Hard to Reach. An
Animal Alphabet of our Actual and Symbolic Relationship to Animals. Animals
on Stage in Therapy: Anthropomorphic Animal Objects. Animation Through the
Window: The Beautiful and the Sublime. Part II: Introduction: Closeness and
Separation. Separation and Sleeping Difficulties: Helpful Images with
Sleepless Children. The Location of Self in Animals. Entangled and
Confusional Children: Analytical Approaches to Psychotic Thinking and
Autistic Features in Childhood. Part III: Introduction: Case Study: The
Heart and the Bone. From Calm to Chaos and Rage. Things that go Bump in the
Night, the 'Fish Pictures' and the Development of Clay-work. The Heart and
the Bone. Working Towards the End of Therapy and Conclusions.

Rezensionen

'This gem of a book will enrich the thinking of all those working analytically with states of mind in which autistic and psychotic defences predominate. Case distils many years of clinical experience with "difficult-to-reach" child patients into a sensitively crafted work which not only uses a wealth of clinical material, but also stories, poetry and images, to convey her approach in theory and in practice. She offers us the animal world, both in itself and in metaphor, as a medium for contacting and relating to the primitive levels of experience encountered in working with profoundly defended areas of the psyche.'

Katherine Killick, Society of Analytical Psychology