Where Analysis Meets the Arts: The Integration of the Arts Therapies with Psychoanalytic Theory - Softcover

Searle, Yvonne; Streng, Isabelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855751844 ISBN 13: 9781855751842

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

This book provides the reader with a theoretical framework that considers how psychoanalysis can enrich the clinical application of the arts therapies. Five specialist arts therapies used in contemporary psychotherapy are examined: drama, psychodrama, art, dance movement and music. Although the contributors represent a variety of orientations and practices, it is the theme of integration which makes this book most stimulated and original, demonstrating how both psychoanalysis and the arts therapies may benefit from a meeting of minds. Contributors: Jeremy Holmes; Joy Schaverien; Mary Levens; Marina Jenkins; Paul Holmes; Kedzie Penfield; Helen Odell-Miller; Jocelyn James; Yvonne Searles; and Isabelle Streng.

About this title

About the Author:

Yvonne Searle

Review:

'The result is an extensive and convincing analysis of the complex ways in which these approaches display a palette of techniques to be used in individual, group or institutional settings, with patients affected by all sorts of emotional and existential problems, by therapists with a variety of skills, interests, professional trainings, and ideological attitudes.' - Andrea Sabbadini

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1855751844
• ISBN 13: 9781855751842
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 226