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Imagining animals : art, psychotherapy and primitive states of mind / Caroline Case.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hove / New York : Routledge, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (241 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1583919570
  • 9781583919576
  • 1583919589
  • 9781583919583
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Imagining animals.DDC classification:
  • 616.891656083 C337
LOC classification:
  • RJ505.A7 C37 2005
NLM classification:
  • 2005 O-160
  • WS 350.2
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. 1. Introduction : working with children who are hard to reach -- pt. 2. Introduction : closeness and separation -- pt. 3. Introduction : case study : the heart and the bone.
Summary: 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,
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pt. 1. Introduction : working with children who are hard to reach -- pt. 2. Introduction : closeness and separation -- pt. 3. Introduction : case study : the heart and the bone.

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,

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