Healing Arts: The History of Art Therapy The phrase 'art therapy' was first coined in 1942, but Susan Hogan's study begins in the latter part of the eighteenth century, when the arts were used as part of the 'moral treatment' method. In the nineteenth century psychological and anthropological writings come under scrutiny, in particular the way in which symbolism in art and language was linked to theories of degeneration and assumptions about the hierarchy of races. The author explores in detail psychoanalytic theories of symbolism, the development of a 'psychopathological school' and analytic (Jungian) psychology. Susan Hogan's book is informative, well researched and entertaining. As well as providing an authoritative history of art therapy, it covers such diverse topics as the philosophy of art therapy, the way attitudes to insanity have changed, the role of art therapy in the context of post-war rehabilitation and the treatment of tuberculosis patients, Surrealism, and Britain's first therapeutic community. It is an invaluable resource for art therapists, and an interesting, informative read for anyone interested in art history or the history of ideas. |
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Adrian Hill and the Development of Art Therapy within Sanatoria | 132 |
Research at Maudsley and Netherne Hospitals | 160 |
The Development of Art Therapy within Psychiatry and Related Settings c19351965 | 186 |
Britains First Therapeutic Community Dedicated to Art Therapy | 220 |
10 Branch Street and Other Projects | 290 |
A Conclusion | 302 |
REFERENCES | 316 |
SUBJECT INDEX | 329 |
AUTHOR INDEX | 334 |
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Page 94 - Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, verbally, in writing, or by other means, the real process of thought. Thought's dictation, in the absence of all control exercised by the reason and outside all aesthetic or moral preoccupations.
Page 192 - to promote the establishment of a comprehensive health service designed to secure improvement in the physical and mental health of the people and the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness, and for that purpose to provide or secure the effective provision of services.
Page 114 - Among all my patients in the second half of life — that is to say, over thirty-five — there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given to their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
Page 57 - At the sight of that skull, I seemed to see all of a sudden, lighted up as a vast plain under a flaming sky, the problem of the nature of the criminal — an atavistic being who reproduces in his person the ferocious instincts of primitive humanity and the inferior animals.
Page 15 - Why should the artist's intention not be capable of being communicated and comprehended in words, like any other fact of mental life?
Page 192 - ... improvement in the physical and mental health of the people of England and Wales, and the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness, and for that purpose to provide or secure the effective provision of services in accordance with the following provisions of this Act.
Page 75 - Further, he possesses the mysterious ability to mould his particular material until it expresses the idea of his phantasy faithfully; and then he knows how to attach to this reflection of his phantasylife so strong a stream of pleasure that, for a time at least, the repressions are out-balanced and dispelled by it. When he can do all this, he opens out to others the way back to the comfort and consolation of their own unconscious sources of pleasure, and so reaps their gratitude and admiration; then...
Page 75 - First of all he understands how to elaborate his day-dreams, so that they lose that personal note which grates upon strange ears and become enjoyable to others; he knows too how to modify them sufficiently so that their origin in prohibited sources is not easily detected. Further, he possesses the mysterious ability to mould his particular material until it expresses the ideas of his phantasy faithfully...
Page 86 - Only what is repressed is symbolised; only what is repressed needs to be symbolised. This conclusion is the touchstone of the psycho-analytical theory of symbolism.
Page 103 - ... seething cauldron' snatching some archetypal form, some instinctive association of words, images, or sounds, which constitute the basis of the work of art. Ideas, and all the rational superstructure of the mind, can be conveyed by the instruments of thought or science; but those deeper intuitions of the mind, which are neither rational nor economic, but which nevertheless exercise a changeless and eternal influence on successive generations of men — these are accessible only to the mystic and...
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| Title | Healing Arts: The History of Art Therapy Arts Therapies |
| Author | Susan Hogan |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001 |
| ISBN | 1853027995, 9781853027994 |
| Length | 336 pages |
| Subjects | › › Art / History / General Psychology / History Psychology / Psychopathology / Compulsive Behavior Psychology / Psychotherapy / General Social Science / Sociology / General Social Science / Women's Studies |
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