Includes bibliographical references (page 75) and index.
Contents
Cover; Self-Healing Through Visual and Verbal Art Therapy; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; THE HAZARDOUS JOURNEY; PREFACE; Introduction; 1 A Brief History; 2 Joe's Drawings; 3 Discussion of Joe's Drawings; 4 Comparing Visual and Verbal Imagery; 5 Joe's Stories; 6 Discussion of Joe's Stories; 7 Considerations of the Way in Which a Disturbed State was Resolved; 8 Summary; REFERENCES; INDEX.
Summary
Self-Healing Through Visual and Verbal Art Therapy explores the therapeutic properties of visual and verbal creativity and its capacity to act as a natural means of self-healing. Drawing on Freud's and Winnicott's work on psychoanalysis and play, R.M. Simon illustrates the healing power of art-making with the drawings and stories of seven-year-old Joe, who succeeds in overcoming the trauma of family break-up by expressing his emotional turmoil outside the formal therapeutic process. The progress from symbolising unconscious distress to verbalising and becoming conscious of (and able to deal wi.