A Jungian Approach to Spontaneous Drawing A Window on the Soul
Auteur : Elwood Patricia
In A Jungian Approach to Spontaneous Drawing, Patricia Anne Elwood provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to exploring spontaneous images, focusing on the value of this tool for insight into the unconscious. Illustrated with drawings of clients throughout, the book poignantly demonstrates how one can connect and access the spheres within through drawing, and how this process can reveal the unexpected.
Elwood begins by accessibly introducing key Jungian concepts and exploring Jung?s belief in the power of spontaneity as an invaluable tool in one?s journey to the soul. As well as illuminating spontaneity, an oft-forgotten aspect of Jung?s psychology, she explores themes including structure and dynamics, symbols and archetypal patterns.
A Jungian Approach to Spontaneous Drawing also examines common motifs including houses, trees and people, and presents extended studies of work with children and adults and how their drawings relate and reveal Jungian ideas. Offering both practical and theoretical perspectives, this book demonstrates the universal benefits of spontaneous drawing for all age groups, helping people to find true release from unconscious blockages and traumas lying dormant in the depths of their own psyche.
A Jungian Approach to Spontaneous Drawing will be essential reading for Jungian analysts, Jungian psychotherapists and analytical psychologists in practice and in training, as well as art therapists with an interest in Jung, and those working with children and adults. It would also be of immense interest to students on courses including art psychotherapy, counselling psychology, Jungian psychology with art therapy, and all those in the helping professions.
Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. Jung’s Journey to the Soul; Chapter 2. Structure and Dynamics in Drawings; Chapter 3. Psychic Energy or Libido; Chapter 4. Janie and "The Wall"; Chapter 5. The Symbol; Chapter 6. The Collective Unconscious, Instincts and Archetypes; Chapter 7. The Transcendent Function; Chapter 8. Alphonso and the Red Toad; Chapter 9. Totemism; Chapter 10. Bobby and the Fish; Chapter 11. The Tree drawing; Chapter 12. The House drawing; Chapter 13. The Person drawing; Checklist; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Patricia Anne Elwood attended the Jung Institute in Zurich, where she completed her post-graduate diplomas in analytical psychology for children and adolescents and for adults. She lives and practices in Lausanne, Switzerland. She has taught in universities, as well as in clinical and educational fields and to professionals from a diversity of disciplines.
Date de parution : 08-2019
17.4x24.6 cm
Date de parution : 08-2019
17.4x24.6 cm
Thème d’A Jungian Approach to Spontaneous Drawing :
Mots-clés :
Dark Journeying; Animal Kingdom; art; Liber Novus; interpretation; Burgholzli Mental Hospital; child; Spontaneous Drawing; adult; Fairy Tales; draw; Red Bird; art therapy; False Attitude; image; Alive Part; symbol; High IQ; totemism; Tree Drawing; unsconscious; Red Book; transcendent function; Sonu Shamdasani; trees; Furry Friend; houses; Tommy 136; people; Man’s Evolutionary History; clinical; Jean Dubuffet; case study; Jung's psychology; Poetry Reading Group; Jungian concepts; Active Professional Career; spontaneous images; Bed Rock; power of spontaneity; Above Ground; Intra-psychic Change; House Drawing; Developmental Life