Creative Transformation: The Healing Power of the Arts

by Penny Lewis

Book Overview

This unique account by a dance and drama therapist is the first of its kind to integrate Jungian theory, creative arts therapy, and developmental object relations theory successfully. Using the arts as a psycho-therapeutic tool, trauma and addiction are explored and enacted, calling upon the imaginal realm of the arts as a vehicle for transformation and recovery. The author has a diploma in gestalt therapy and has taught the arts in psychotherapy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0933029667
• ISBN13: 9780933029668
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Chiron Publications
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Original, enlightening and delecately magical.

This is an excellent book for counselors who are looking for something more than "talk therapy". Through the use of sandplay, dreamwork and other creative therapies, Dr. Lewis enters the "imaginal realm" with her clients. According to the author, it is in this sacred place that true healing and "transformation" occurs. The author has developed her own integrated theoretical orientation which is rooted in both Gestalt and Jungian Psychology. Through the use of case illustrations and pictures of actual client art work, Dr. Lewis invites the reader into their world. This approach is original, insightful and delicately magical. A must read for the energized, dedicated and creative therapists out there yearning for more. This is it!!