Yehudit Silverman

The Story Within - Myth and Fairy Tale in Therapy

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Produktbeschreibung

This creative arts therapies approach involves clients choosing a character from myth or fairy tale as a way of working with unconscious personal material. Suitable for therapeutic group work and individual use, this practical, step-by-step resource includes guidelines on the process, conceptual background information, and clinical case vignettes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9781785925092
• ISBN-10: 1785925091
• Artikelnr.: 57024302

Autorenporträt

Yehudit Silverman, M.A. R-DMT, RDT, is a Creative Arts Therapist, and former Chair of the Department of Creative Arts Therapies, Concordia University, Montreal. She created The Story Within method out of her clinical practice and has been teaching it to graduate students for over 20 years. An award-winning documentary filmmaker, (with a companion film of this approach) she has screened her films on television, cinemas, conferences, and Universities. She received several federal and provincial grants to work on issues around suicide, and interfaith arts dialogue. She leads workshops, trainings, creative rituals, and presentations internationally. www.yehuditsilverman.com

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: FRAMEWORK 1. Introduction 2. Creative Arts Therapies, Creative
Projection, and Aesthetic Distance 3. Creative DNA and Perception
Differences 4. Stages of Creative Process 5. Therapeutic Guidelines
Compassion, empathy, imperfection Comfort and ability to work with story,
myth and metaphor Comfort with no interpretation, no agenda, entering the
unknown Comfort with creative process The power of being a witness and
containment Safety First Attention and Intention 6. Elements in Myths,
Fairy Tales, Traditional Stories 7. How to go through the steps PART II:
STEPS OF THE PROCESS 1. Encounter 2. Chaos and Order 3. Finding the
Story/Telling the Story 4. Making a Mask 5. Placing and Embodying the Mask
6. Finding the Moment 7. Soundscape 8. Environment 9. Directing Someone
Else 10. Obstacle and Helper 11. The Edge 12. Final Presentation/Ritual 13.
Afterwards PART III: Alumni Writings PART IV: Additional Resources,
Training