Main description:

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.

Contents:

In Memoriam , Foreword , Introduction , Freud, psychoanalysis, and the arts therapies , Art and analytical psychology , Analytically informed art therapy , Dramatherapy and psychoanalysis: some links explored , Psychodrama, psychoanalytic theory, and the creative process , Movement as a way to the unconscious , Music therapy and its relationship to psychoanalysis , The landscape of the imagination: an integrative arts approach based in depth psychology , Integration and complementation