Trauma, tragedy, therapy the arts and human suffering
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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London
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
2009
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes From trauma to tragedy. Going to the ground -- Mimetic wounds -- Trauma, therapy and the arts -- Chaos into form. Order and chaos in therapy and the arts -- Is order enough? Is chaos too much? -- The expressive body -- The second coming -- The art of despair -- Researching imagination, imagining research -- A fragmented totality? -- Poiesis after post-modernism. Poiesis and praxis -- Be like Jacques -- What can I say, dear, after I say I'm sorry? Stephen K. Levine's new book explores the nature of traumatic experience and the therapeutic role of the arts and arts therapies in responding to it. It suggests that by re-imagining painful and tragic experiences through art-making, we may release their fixity and negative hold on our lives and resist the temptation to assume the role of the victim. Among the many concerns that the book addresses is the damage done by the tendency to adopt stock methods of understanding and superficial explanations for the depths, complexities, wonders, and exasperations of human experience. The book explores |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (208 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0857001930 1843105128 9780857001931 9781843105121 |