Art, Memoir and Jung

Personal and Psychological Encounters
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-53718-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 146 Seiten, Format (B × H): 234 mm x 171 mm, Gewicht: 256 g

In this intimate study Juliet Miller maps the artworks that have influenced her throughout her life and examines how she has integrated them into her development as a psychotherapist.

Working from the premise that our initial reactions to art provide a crucial key to self-analysis, Miller interrogates the significance of different artists, including Bourgeois, Vermeer, Rousseau and Kahlo, and analyses how personal circumstances, recollections and emotions have affected responses to their work. Chapters incorporate clinical material from Miller’s practice, linking into her own anxieties about sitting with and connecting with patients, and touching on themes including creativity, character, identity and communication.

Through this exploration she questions many of the conventions of art and psychotherapy and suggests ways in which looking at art can be used as a psychological tool. Art, Memoir and Jung offers a highly personal and innovative perspective on meaning in art and how it can be used to explore Jungian thought as based in the aesthetic, and how the aesthetic can inform depth psychology.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller, Juliet

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Psychiatrische Pflege

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Shock 2. Affected by Art 3. The Gaze 4. Red Paint 5. Stillness 6. Touch 7. Beads and Threads 8. Struggle 9. Multiple Selves 10. Space 11. The Dream 12. Silence 13. Alchemy 14. The Heretic 15. Walking 16. Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Juliet Miller is a writer and Jungian analyst based in the UK. She is fascinated by the interface between art and psyche. She is also the author of The Creative Feminine and her Discontents: Psychotherapy, Art and Destruction.