Susan Hogan

Healing Arts

The History of Art Therapy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Susan Hogan traces art therapy's origins back to the latter part of the eighteenth century, when working with images was used as a "moral treatment". As well as providing an authoritative history of art therapy, she covers such diverse topics as the philosophy of art therapy, the way attitudes to insanity have changed, Surrealism, and Britain's first therapeutic community.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9781853027994
• ISBN-10: 1853027995
• Artikelnr.: 22360116

Autorenporträt

Susan Hogan taught twentieth-century art history and theory at the University of New South Wales and the National Art School, Sydney. She served as Vice-President of the Australian National Art Therapy Association. She is currently Reader in Cultural Studies and Art Therapy at the University of Derby's School of Health and Community Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1.Introduction 2.Taming the Passions: Moral Contagion, the Curative and
Transformative Power of the Arts in Moral Treatment. 3.Mad, Bad and
Degenerate: Art Therapy, Degeneration, Psychoanalysis and "the
Psychopathological School". 4.Casting Off the Shackles of the Intellect: Is
Modern Art Mad Art? 5.In the Moral Tradition. 6.Adrian Hill and the
Development of Art Therapy Within Sanatoria. 7.Pioneers of Art Therapy:
Research at Maudsley and Netherne Hospitals. 8.Pioneers of Art Therapy: The
Development of Art Therapy Within Psychiatry and Related Settings.
9.Withymead: Britain's First Therapeutic Community Dedicated to Art
Therapy. 10.Branch Street and Other Projects. 11.The Historical Roots
Revisited. A Conclusion. Bibliography.