Caroline Case

Imagining Animals (eBook, PDF)

Art, Psychotherapy and Primitive States of Mind

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 location of self in animals
* entangled and confusional children: analytical approaches to psychotic thinking and autistic features in childhood.

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.
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 as well as adult psychotherapists interested in the use of imagery.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317822028
• Artikelnr.: 40446852

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