How Art Heals

Author : Shaun McNiff
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0834827298

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Art Heals by Shaun McNiff Pdf

The field of art therapy is discovering that artistic expression can be a powerful means of personal transformation and emotional and spiritual healing. In this book, Shaun McNiff, a leader in expressive arts therapy for more than three decades, reflects on a wide spectrum of activities aimed at reviving art's traditional healing function. In chapters ranging from "Liberating Creativity" and "The Practice of Creativity in the Workplace" to "From Shamanism to Art Therapy," he illuminates some of the most progressive views in the rapidly expanding field of art therapy: • The "practice of imagination" as a powerful force for transformation • A challenge to literal-minded psychological interpretations of artworks ("black colors indicate depression") and the principle that even disturbing images have inherent healing properties • The role of the therapist in promoting an environment conducive to free expression and therapeutic energies • The healing effects of group work, with people creating alongside one another and interacting in the studio • "Total expression," combining arts such as movement, storytelling, and drumming with painting and drawing

Author : Andra F Stanton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0764361465

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How Art Heals by Andra F Stanton Pdf

Use this compassionate guide to access your deepest emotions, express them through art, and transform them into tools for healing and understanding. Former psychotherapist turned artist Andy Stanton offers guided meditations, imagery techniques, and collage prompts to open a safe space for not only grief and brokenheartedness, but celebration and thankfulness. First, follow relaxation and imagery techniques to access your feelings; next, use the simple guidelines for making collage art. Inspiring us by example, dozens of contemporary artists offer photographs of their most personally transformative artworks and share heartfelt stories about how those pieces helped them alleviate their difficult emotions. Focusing on the emotional-artistic process rather than specific skill, Stanton offers lessons for artists of all experience levels and mediums. An exclusive online bonus feature offers dozens more artworks and stories.

Author : Michael Samuels,Mary Rockwood Lane
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781451696837

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Healing with the Arts by Michael Samuels,Mary Rockwood Lane Pdf

Heal yourself and your community with this proven 12-week program that uses the arts to awaken your innate healing abilities. From musicians in hospitals to quilts on the National Mall—art is already healing people all over the world. It is helping veterans recover, improving the quality of life for cancer patients, and bringing communities together to improve their neighborhoods. Now it’s your turn. Through art projects, including visual arts, dance, writing, and music, along with spiritual practices and guided imagery, Healing with the Arts gives you the tools to address what you need to heal in your life—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. An acclaimed twelve-week program lauded by hospitals and caretakers from around the world, Healing with the Arts gives you the ability to heal your family and your friends, as well as communities where you’ve always wanted to make a difference. Internationally known leaders in the arts in medicine movement, Michael Samuels, MD, and Mary Rockwood Lane, RN, PhD, show you how to use creativity and self-expression to pave the artist’s path to healing.

Author : Gale Straub
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781452167671

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She Explores by Gale Straub Pdf

For every woman who has ever been called outdoorsy comes a collection of stories that inspires unforgettable adventure. Beautiful, empowering, and exhilarating, She Explores is a spirited celebration of female bravery and courage, and an inspirational companion for any woman who wants to travel the world on her own terms. Combining breathtaking travel photography with compelling personal narratives, She Explores shares the stories of 40 diverse women on unforgettable journeys in nature: women who live out of vans, trucks, and vintage trailers, hiking the wild, cooking meals over campfires, and sleeping under the stars. Women biking through the countryside, embarking on an unknown road trip, or backpacking through the outdoors with their young children in tow. Complementing the narratives are practical tips and advice for women planning their own trips, including: • Preparing for a solo hike • Must-haves for a road-trip kitchen • Planning ahead for unknown territory • Telling your own story A visually stunning and emotionally satisfying collection for any woman craving new landscapes and adventure.

Author : Jacques Mercier,Museum for African Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015045980870

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Art that Heals by Jacques Mercier,Museum for African Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Exhibition catalog, Paper not available, Published for Museum for African Art, New York.

Author : Michael Samuels MD,Mary Rockwood Lane RN, PhD
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725229327

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Creative Healing by Michael Samuels MD,Mary Rockwood Lane RN, PhD Pdf

All across the country, a groundbreaking movement is forming in the field of health care: art and medicine are becoming one, with remarkable results. In major medical centers such as the University of Florida, Duke, University of California, and Harvard Medical School, patients confronting life-threatening illness and depression are using art, writing, music, and Dance to heal body and soul. -A woman with breast cancer who has never made art before finds healing and empowerment by creating sculpture. -A man with AIDS uses journaling to overcome feelings of despair and helplessness. -A woman suffering from depression following her divorce learns to dance for the first time in her life--and in he body's movement she rediscovers a sense of play and joy. -A musician gives meaning to his art by helping people with illness transform their life through music. -Physicians and nurses are beginning to use creativity to complement and enhance their medical practice. Creative Healing presents readers with the inspiring ways in which the arts (painting, writing, music, and dance) can free the spirit to heal. In one volume, the authors detail the transformative power of a diverse range of artistic activity. Michael Samuels, MD, has over twenty-five years of experience working with cancer patients and is the best-selling author of Seeing with the Mind's Eye and The Well Baby Book. He teams up with fellow pioneer Mary Rockwood Lane, RN, PhD, to share their extraordinary findings on the healing powers of the arts. Through guided imagery, personal stories, and practical exercises, they teach you how to find your "inner artist-healer," enabling you to improve your health, attitude, and sense of well being by immersing yourself in creative activity. Both Samuels and Lane offer invaluable insight through their personal journeys and extensive groundbreaking research, noting that "prayer, art, and healing come from the same source--the human soul." Because there lies an artist and healer within each of us, Creative Healing is an invaluable resource for anyone wishing to discover the beauty of music, dance, writing or art and connect with a deeper part of oneself. Filled with inspiration and guidance, it will help you make changes in your life and the lives of others and gain access to the sacred place where inner peace exists.

Author : Edward Adamson,John Timlin
Publisher : Boston, Mass. : Coventure
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Medical
ISBN : UCSD:31822023940505

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Art as Healing by Edward Adamson,John Timlin Pdf

Author : Ellen Dissanayake
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295998381

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What Is Art For? by Ellen Dissanayake Pdf

Every human society displays some form of behavior that can be called “art,” and in most societies other than our own the arts play an integral part in social life. Those who wish to understand art in its broadest sense, as a universal human endowment, need to go beyond modern Western elitist notions that disregard other cultures and ignore the human species’ four-million-year evolutionary history. This book offers a new and unprecedentedly comprehensive theory of the evolutionary significance of art. Art, meaning not only visual art, but music, poetic language, dance, and performance, is for the first time regarded from a biobehavioral or ethical viewpoint. It is shown to be a biological necessity in human existence and fundamental characteristic of the human species. In this provocative study, Ellen Dissanayake examines art along with play and ritual as human behaviors that “make special,” and proposes that making special is an inherited tendency as intrinsic to the human species as speech and toolmaking. She claims that the arts evolved as means of making socially important activities memorable and pleasurable, and thus have been essential to human survival. Avoiding simplism and reductionism, this original synthetic approach permits a fresh look at old questions about the origins, nature, purpose, and value of art. It crosses disciplinary boundaries and integrates a number of divers fields: human ethology; evolutionary biology; the psychology and philosophy of art; physical and cultural anthropology; “primitive” and prehistoric art; Western cultural history; and children’s art. The final chapter, “From Tradition to Aestheticism,” explores some of the ways in which modern Western society has diverged from other societies--particularly the type of society in which human beings evolved--and considers the effects of the aberrance on our art and our attitudes toward art. This book is addressed to readers who have a concerned interest in the arts or in human nature and the state of modern society.

Author : Irene Renzenbrink
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781787752795

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An Expressive Arts Approach to Healing Loss and Grief by Irene Renzenbrink Pdf

Drawing on expertise in both expressive arts and grief counselling, this book highlights the use of expressive arts therapeutic methods in confronting and healing grief and bereavement. Establishing a link between these two approaches, it widens our understanding of loss and grief. With personal and professional insight, Renzenbrink illuminates the healing and restorative power of creative arts therapies, as well as addressing the impact of communion with others and the role that expressive arts can play in community change. Covering a broad understanding of grief, the discussion incorporates migration and losing one's home, chronic illness and natural disasters, highlighting the breadth of types of loss and widening our perceptions of this. Grief specialists are given imaginative and nourishing tools to incorporate into their practice and better support their clients. An invaluable resource to expand understanding of grief and explore the power of expressive arts to heal both communities and individuals.

Author : Pat B. Allen
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995-04-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780834823266

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Art Is a Way of Knowing by Pat B. Allen Pdf

An expert in art therapy offers this “wonderful” guide “for anyone, artistic or not, who is interested in using art to know more about himself or herself” (Library Journal) Making art—giving form to the images that arise in our mind's eye, our dreams, and our everyday lives—is a form of spiritual practice through which knowledge of ourselves can ripen into wisdom. This book offers encouragement for everyone to explore art-making in this spirit of self-discovery—plus practical instructions on material, methods, and activities, such as ways to: • Discover a personal myth or story • Recognize patterns and themes in one's life • Identify and release painful memories • Combine journaling and image making • Practice the ancient skill of active imagination • Connect with others through sharing one's art works Interwoven with this guidance is the intimate story of the author's own journey as a student, art therapist, teacher, wife, mother, and artist—and, most of all, as a woman who discovered a profound and healing connection with her soul through making art.

Author : Sheila Darcey
Publisher : St. Martin's Essentials
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781250773883

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Sketch by Sketch by Sheila Darcey Pdf

Transform your life, process your emotions, and find joy in Sheila Darcey's Sketch by Sketch During a difficult time in her life, author Sheila Darcey found that the act of sketching and freestyle drawing—of giving a physical form to her thoughts, emotions and ideas—was an impactful way to process what she was feeling. One simple sketch became a daily practice and developed into a meditative and therapeutic tool that Sheila has taught and shared with thousands of people. Sketch by Sketch will help you create a daily sketching practice that shifts you from negative thinking and spiraling emotions into the realm of possibility. By using art to connect your left brain with your right brain, Sketch by Sketch will unlock your basic human need to create, express, and feel—regardless of whether or not you think of yourself as an artist. In Sketch by Sketch, you’ll find over 40 sketching prompts on a variety of topics from hope to stillness that will help you connect with your emotions, practice mindfulness, and negotiate change. With each drawing you'll find you are able to process your experiences in a powerful new way. Step by step, sketch by sketch, you'll find peace, creativity, and healing on the page.

Author : Shaun McNiff
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1992-10-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780834827288

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Art as Medicine by Shaun McNiff Pdf

"Whenever illness is associated with loss of soul," writes Shaun McNiff, "the arts emerge spontaneously as remedies, soul medicine." The medicine of the artist, like that of the shaman, arises from his or her relationship to "familiars"—the themes, methods, and materials that interact with the artist through the creative process. Art as Medicine demonstrates how the imagination heals and renews itself through this natural process. The author describes his pioneering methods of art therapy—including interpretation through performance and storytelling, creative collaboration, and dialoguing with images—and the ways in which they can revitalize both psychotherapy and art itself.

Author : Patricia Fitzgerald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1848892845

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Healing Creations by Patricia Fitzgerald Pdf

The Sanskrit word 'mandala' can be loosely translated to mean circle. But it is far more than just a shape. It represents wholeness and the structure of life: a cosmic diagram that shows us how we relate to the infinite. Colouring mandalas has a deeply therapeutic effect, allowing you to achieve mindfulness by focusing on the present moment. With forty intricate, hand-drawn mandalas, this book will transport you to a state of tranquillity. There are inspirational quotations to ponder as you work and journal pages allow you to document your journey. Each journey, good or bad, is part of the story of our lives. Make sure to look after yourself along the way.

Author : Edward Regensburg
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1491070285

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Quantum Imagery by Edward Regensburg Pdf

Quantum Imagery is an easy to follow, concise introductory guide that reveals the mystery behind the phenomena we call Art and WHY it is more than what we commonly think it is. Explaining why art facilitates the healing process, it goes beyond the visual descriptions of art to present an understanding of its spiritual, transformational power, integrating knowledge from the world of art psychotherapy, metaphysics and quantum physics. "In his book, Quantum Imagery, Ed explores questions that we did not know we were asking and makes connections for life's mysteries that we were unaware that we needed. Quantum Imagery inspires the reader to go to a realm that encourages them to seek answers to some of the universe's most complicated concepts about life and human nature." - DeeDee Lichtenberg-Scanlan, LCAT, Adjunct Professor of Art Therapy, Long Island University "There is an invisible world - already present - that is longing to be revealed. There are individuals, and Ed is one of them, that have the ability to hear, feel and acknowledge this world and reveal it. Quantum Imagery provides the foundation for understanding what we call 'art' and how it relates to the worlds of therapy and beyond." - Dr. Alan Sherr, DC, author of the award winning "Heart Of The Healer," Director, Northport Wellness Center and Hyperbaric Associates of America

Author : Alain Botton,John Armstrong
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 0714872784

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Art as Therapy by Alain Botton,John Armstrong Pdf

Two authorities on popular culture reveal the ways in which art can enhance mood and enrich lives - now available in paperback This passionate, thought-provoking, often funny, and always-accessible book proposes a new way of looking at art, suggesting that it can be useful, relevant, and therapeutic. Through practical examples, the world-renowned authors argue that certain great works of art have clues as to how to manage the tensions and confusions of modern life. Chapters on love, nature, money, and politics show how art can help with many common difficulties, from forging good relationships to coming to terms with mortality.