Childhood Revealed: Art Expressing Pain, Discovery & Hope - Hardcover

Koplewicz, Harold; Goodman Ph.D., Robin F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810941015 ISBN 13: 9780810941014

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 1999

Synopsis

A compelling window into the emotional, mental, and physical problems of children uses one hundred works produced in art therapy to show how children between the ages of four and eighteen have learned to cope with depression, divorce, eating disorders, psychosis, learning differences, and physical illness through art.

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Koplewicz and Goodman (New York Sch. of Medicine) have put together a beautiful and haunting coffee-table (or doctor's-waiting-room) book of artwork about childhood trauma. Produced as part of the NYU Child Study Center's "efforts to educate the public so the parents will be better able to identify and accept when their child has a mental disorder," this book, which accompanies a traveling exhibition, displays--in full color and on heavy paper--103 pieces of artwork gathered from a cross-section of therapists and educators. Some of these pictures are captioned and explained by the children, ages four through 18, who created them. Included is an excellent overview by Margery Rosen succinctly describing some of the mental-health crises that challenge so many of the nation's children. Not a work of criticism or even interpretation, this book offers pictures expressing each child's innermost experiences in symbols other than words and speak for themselves. Recommended for public and academic libraries.
-Margaret Cardwell, Georgia Perimeter Coll., Clarkston
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810941015
• ISBN 13: 9780810941014
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160