Beschreibung:
Caroline Case is an analytical art therapist in private practice and a child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Knowle Clinic, Bristol. She is co-author of The Handbook of Art Therapy and co-editor of Working with Children in Art Therapy
Imagining Animals offers a unique insight into the role and representation of animal imagery in art therapy and child psychotherapy, which will be of interest to all arts and play therapists working with children
Part I: Introduction: Working with Children who are Hard to Reach. An Animal Alphabet of our Actual and Symbolic Relationship to Animals. Animals on Stage in Therapy: Anthropomorphic Animal Objects. Animation Through the Window: The Beautiful and the Sublime. Part II: Introduction: Closeness and Separation. Separation and Sleeping Difficulties: Helpful Images with Sleepless Children. The Location of Self in Animals. Entangled and Confusional Children: Analytical Approaches to Psychotic Thinking and Autistic Features in Childhood. Part III: Introduction: Case Study: The Heart and the Bone. From Calm to Chaos and Rage. Things that go Bump in the Night, the 'Fish Pictures' and the Development of Clay-work. The Heart and the Bone. Working Towards the End of Therapy and Conclusions.