Healing through art : ritualized space and Cree identity

Healing through art : ritualized space and Cree identity / Nadia Ferrara.

"In Healing through Art, Nadia Ferrara shows how art therapy has been used as a successful form of healing among Crees in northern Quebec. Although Ferrara is not Native and was not using a traditional method, her art therapy became a ritual for her patients and she was accepted in Cree communi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ferrara, Nadia, 1967- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2004]
Series:McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 41.
Subjects:
Cree Indians > Mental health > James Bay Region.
Art therapy > James Bay Region.
Cree Indians > Ethnic identity.
Cree Indians > Psychology.
Self-perception.
Art therapy.
art therapy.
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > General.
Self-perception
Art therapy
Cree Indians > Psychology
Canada > James Bay Region
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Crees in Quebec
  • 3. Cree styles of communication
  • 4. Cree mythopoetic thought
  • 5. Ritualizing space through art therapy
  • 6. Conclusion : art therapy as an interstice for the Cree self.

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