Graham Gordon Ramsay, Holly Barlow Sweet

A Creative Guide to Exploring Your Life

Self-Reflection Using Photography, Art, and Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a structured guide to exploring identity and what you want from life using a series of visual and written exercises. The authors demonstrate techniques for self-exploration and self-expression in order to better understand who you are, where you come from, how you think, and how you define your values and goals. Topics for the exercises, which are illustrated with examples of students' work, include turning points and major influences, family traditions, roles you play, core values, alternative views of yourself, goals for your future, and the impact of gender, race, and ethnicity on identity. The final chapter guides the reader through the process of putting together a "self-portrayal" ??? a personal mixed-media journal-inspired work that ties together all of the elements touched on in the exercises. This book will be of interest to arts therapists, counselors, and anyone looking to understand their own identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 287g
• ISBN-13: 9781843108924
• ISBN-10: 1843108925
• Artikelnr.: 23810099

Autorenporträt

Graham Gordon Ramsay is a professional freelance commercial and fine art photographer and teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His fine art images have appeared in galleries and private collections throughout the US and Europe, and his commercial images have appeared in publications such as Time Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Science, and Figaro Magazine. Holly Barlow Sweet Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and a lecturer at MIT. She maintains a private practice in the Boston area and has given numerous talks and workshops at both local and national levels on self-esteem enhancement, creativity and self-exploration, and gender roles and relationships. She is Co-Director of the Cambridge Center for Gender Relations and, in 2005, received the "Practitioner of the Year" award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity, a division of the American Psychological Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Preface: The Birth of This Book. Introduction: How to Use
This Book. 1. The Journey of Self-Discovery 2. The Value of
Self-Expression. 3. Turning Points and Key People. 4. Gender and Self. 5.
Race and Ethnicity 6. Self in Historical Context. 7. Meaning in Our Lives.
8. Alternative Views of Self. 9. Self in the Future. 10. Creating a
Mixed-Media Portrayal of Self. 11. Final Reflections. Appendix A: A Guide
for Instructors and Group Facilitators. Appendix B: Syllabus for Class on
Self-Reflections. References. Further Reading. Index.