This classic edition of Imagining Animals explores how the making of animal images in art therapy and child psychotherapy can act as a powerful catalyst for children who may be struggling with communication.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
PART I
Introduction: working with children who are hard
to reach
1. An animal alphabet of our actual and symbolic relationship to
animals
2. Animals on stage in therapy: anthropomorphic animal objects
3. Animation through the window: the beautiful and the sublime
PART II
Introduction: closeness and separation
4. Separation and sleeping difficulties: helpful images with
sleepless children
5. The location of self in animals
6. Entangled and confusional children: analytical approaches to
psychotic thinking and autistic features in childhood
PART III
Introduction: case study: the heart and the bone
7. From calm to chaos and rage
8. Things that go bump in the night, the 'fish pictures' and the
development of clay-work
9. The heart and the bone
10. Working towards the end of therapy and conclusions
