This classic edition of Imagining Animals explores how the making of animal images in art therapy and child psychotherapy can act as a powerful catalyst for children who may be struggling with communication. Readers will benefit from learning about the different ways that animal symbolism can support autistic children and children navigating trauma, abuse and depression in engaging with the therapeutic process.This essential book explores two contrasting primitive states of mind throughout: the investing of the world around us with life through animism and participation mystique, and the lifeless world in the states of mind encountered in children who are hard to reach. Featuring a new introduction by the author, subjects covered in subsequent chapters include, but are not limited to:Animal/human relationshipsAnimal symbolismAnimals on stage in therapy and anthropomorphic animal objectsThree-dimensional clay-workThe location of the self in animalsImagining Animals offers a unique insight into the role and representation of animal imagery in art therapy and child psychotherapy. This is an essential read for all arts and play therapists working with children as well as adult psychotherapists interested in the use of imagery.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-07-30
Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt630 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Mental Health Classic Editions
Antal sidor236
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781041002482

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PART IIntroduction: working with children who are hardto reach 1. An animal alphabet of our actual and symbolic relationship toanimals 2. Animals on stage in therapy: anthropomorphic animal objects 3. Animation through the window: the beautiful and the sublime PART IIIntroduction: closeness and separation 4. Separation and sleeping difficulties: helpful images withsleepless children 5. The location of self in animals 6. Entangled and confusional children: analytical approaches topsychotic thinking and autistic features in childhood PART IIIIntroduction: case study: the heart and the bone 7. From calm to chaos and rage 8. Things that go bump in the night, the ‘fish pictures’ and thedevelopment of clay-work 9. The heart and the bone 10. Working towards the end of therapy and conclusions

'This gem of a book will enrich the thinking of all those working analytically with states of mind in which autistic and psychotic defences predominate. Case distils many years of clinical experience with "difficult-to-reach" child patients into a sensitively crafted work which not only uses a wealth of clinical material, but also stories, poetry and images, to convey her approach in theory and in practice. She offers us the animal world, both in itself and in metaphor, as a medium for contacting and relating to the primitive levels of experience encountered in working with profoundly defended areas of the psyche.'Katherine Killick, Society of Analytical Psychology