The Arts and Psychotherapy.

The Arts and Psychotherapy.

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Author / Creator:McNiff, Shaun.
Imprint:Springfield : Charles C Thomas Publisher, LTD, 1981.
Description:1 online resource (259 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Arts -- Therapeutic use.
Art Therapy.
Dance Therapy.
Mental Disorders -- therapy.
Music Therapy.
Arts -- Therapeutic use.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11245033
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ISBN:9780398081737
0398081735
0398041121
9780398041120
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-228).
English.
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Summary:By Shaun McNiff, Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts. A unique perspective of expressive arts as psychotherapy is presented. The author stresses the unity of the arts therapies in a theoretical and operational approach that is firmly rooted in the historical continuities and essential meaning of art. He shows how contemporary therapies involving oral and written language, movement and dance, sound and music, visual imagery, and drama correspond to ancient, cross-cultural, even universal attempts at psychic healing. Current practices in all of the arts therapies are described in light of t.
Other form:Print version: McNiff, Shaun. Arts and Psychotherapy. Springfield : Charles C Thomas Publisher, LTD, ©1981 9780398041120

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