The healing flow : artistic expression in therapy : creative arts and the process of healing : an image/word approach inquiry / / Martina Schnetz ; foreword by V. Darroch-Lozowski ; foreword by David Wright

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910963905003321
• Autore: Schnetz Martina
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, PA, : Jessica Kingsley, 2004
• ISBN: 9786610261772; 9781280261770; 1280261773; 9781846420627; 1846420628
• Edizione: [1st American pbk. ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.89/1656
• Soggetti: Art therapy; Healing; Imagery (Psychology) - Therapeutic use
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; The Healing Flow: Artistic Expression in Therapy, Creative Arts and the Process of Healing: An Image/Word Approach Inquiry; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword by Vivian Darroch-Lozowski; Foreword by David C. Wright; Part 1 Interpretative Quilting: A Qualitative Art-Based Approach to Inquiry; 1 Introduction to the Healing Flow: An Image Oriented Approach to Inquiry and Psychotherapy; 2 Interpretative Quilting as a Qualitative Approach to Inquiry; 3 The Nature of Truth in Interpretative Quilting; Part 2 An Interpretative Quilt: A Qualitative Study of the Healing Flow within a Clinical Setting4 The Role of Contextual Factors in Interpretative Quilting; 5 A Window: Entering the Art Therapy Room; 6 Sam's Journey with the Healing Flow; 7 Mary's Journey with the Healing Flow; 8 A View into the Activities in an Art Therapy Session; 9 Verbal Reflection Phase of the Healing Flow of Images and the Quality of the Dialogical Image/Word Process; 10 Transition Phase and Closing Ritual as a Container of the
• Sommario/riassunto: Drawing on her extensive experience as a creative arts therapist, Martina Schnetz puts forward a new approach to the process of art in healing. She explores the dialogue between the internal world, external images, and words, shaping a new vocabulary for creative arts therapists. The Healing Flow is a theoretical and experiential account of the author's work with survivors of childhood trauma and post traumatic stress. Case studies are presented in this model. Through providing deeper insight into the creative processes, participants recover meaningful patterns in their lives, and restore conn