Imagining Animals: Art, Psychotherapy and Primitive States of Mind

by Caroline Case

Imagining Animals explores the making of animal images in art therapy and child psychotherapy. It examines two contrasting primitive states of mind: the investing of the world about us with life through animism and participation mystique, and the lifeless world of autistic states of mind encountered in children who are hard to reach.

Caroline Case examines how the emergence of animal imagery in therapy can act as a powerful catalyst...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583919570
• ISBN13: 9781583919576
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"