| Description |
1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Preface / Lani Gerity -- Part 1: Introduction: Personal history as artist and art therapist. Credo, as an artist and as art therapist ; A history and lineage of art therapy as practice by Edith Kramer ; Art therapy and language, a revisiting of Orwell's 'Politics and the English language' -- Part 2: The profession of art therapy. 'Exploration of definition', by Edith Kramer and Elinor Ulman ; The unity of process and product ; Art therapy and sublimation ; The art therapist's third hand : reflections on art, art therapy and society at large -- Part 3: Clinical work. 'An art therapy evaluation session for children', by Edith Kramer and Jill Schehr ; Leadership and cultural tradition ; Case history of angel : art therapy and the disturbed gifted child ; Art and the blind child ; Case history of Christopher ; 'The importance of lines', but Kerstin Kupfermann with a discussion by Edith Kramer -- Part 4: Art therapy, ethology and society. 'Reflection on the evolution of human perception : implications for the understanding of the visual arts and of the visual products of art therapy' ; Art therapy and the seductive environment, by Katherine Williams, Edith Kramer David Henley and Lani Gerity ; The etiology of human aggression ; Inner satisfaction and external sucess, by Edith Kramer, Martha Haeseler, David Henley and Lani Gerity -- Part 5: Art and art therapy. 'The Angels of St. Wolfgang' : representation of infancy and childhood in the art of the renaissance and of the baroque ; 'A critique of Kurt Eissler's Leonardo da Vinci' ; Survival under extreme conditions : reflections on The book of Alfred Kantor : an artist's journal of the Holocaust |
| Summary |
This collection of papers reflects Edith Kramer's 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, art therapy, society, ethology and clinical practice and placing art therapy in its social and historical context |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest EBook Central platform, viewed on August 18, 2023) |
| Subject |
Art therapy.
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Art Therapy
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art therapy.
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Creative Therapy (Eg Art, Music, Drama)
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MEDICAL -- Allied Health Services -- Occupational Therapy.
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Art therapy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gerity, Lani Alaine, 1953- editor.
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| LC no. |
00043568 |
| ISBN |
9781846429828 |
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184642982X |
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