Art as Therapy : Collected Papers.

Art as Therapy : Collected Papers.

Edith Kramer is one of the pioneers in the field of art therapy, known and respected throughout the world. This collection of papers reflects her lifetime of work in this field, showing how her thoughts and practice have developed over the years. She considers a wide spectrum of issues, covering art...

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Main Author: Kramer, Edith
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001.
Series:Arts Therapies.
Subjects:
Art therapy.
art therapy.
Art therapy
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Table of Contents:
  • Art as Therapy: Collected Papers; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgments; Preface; PART 1 Introduction
  • Personal History as Artist and Ar tTherapist; CHAPTER 1 Credo, as an Artist and as Art Therapist; CHAPTER 2 A History and Lineage of Art Therapy as Practiced by Edith Kramer; CHAPTER 3 Art Therapy and Language, A Revisiting of Orwell's 'Politics and the English Language'; PART 2 The Profession of Art Therapy; CHAPTER 4 Exploration of Definition; CHAPTER 5 The Unity of Process and Product; CHAPTER 6 Art Therapy and Sublimation.
  • CHAPTER 7 The Art Therapist's Third Hand Reflections on Art, Art Therapy and Society at LargePART 3 Clinical Work; CHAPTER 8 An Art Therapy Evaluation Session for Children; CHAPTER 9 Leadership and Cultural Tradition; CHAPTER 10 Case History of Angel Art Therapy and the Disturbed Gifted Child; CHAPTER 11 Art and the Blind Child; CHAPTER 12 Case History of Christopher; CHAPTER 13 'The Importance of Lines' Kerstin Kupfermann, with a discussion by Edith Kramer; PART 4 Art Therapy, Ethology, and Society.
  • CHAPTER 14 Reflection on the Evolution of Human Perception: Implications for the Understanding of the Visual Arts and of the Visual Products of Art TherapyCHAPTER 15 Art Therapy and the Seductive Environment: Katherine Williams, Edith Kramer, David Henley and Lani Gerity; CHAPTER 16 The Etiology of Human Aggression; CHAPTER 17 Inner Satisfaction and External Success: Edith Kramer, Martha P. Haeseler, David Henley and Lani Gerity; PART 5 Art and Art Therapy; CHAPTER 18 'The Angels of St. Wolfgang 'Representation of Infancy and Childhood in the Art of the Renaissance and of the Baroque.
  • CHAPTER 19 'A Critique of Kurt Eissler's Leonardo da Vinci'CHAPTER 20 Survival Under Extreme Conditions: Reflections on The Book of Alfred Kantor: An Artist's Journal of the Holocaust; List of Contributors; Subject Index; Author Index.

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