Portrait therapy : resolving self-identity disruption in clients with life-threatening and chronic illnesses /: resolving self-identity disruption in clients with life-threatening and chronic illnesses. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Susan Carr.
• Authors: Carr, Susan
• Contents: Foreword. Acknowledgements. Part I. Focusing the Gaze. 1. Setting the Scene: Introducing Portraiture as a 'Third Hand' Intervention. 2. Priming the Canvas: A Phenomenological Approach to Depicting Subjectivity. 3. Selecting the Medium: Portraiture as a Therapeutic Tool. Part II. Collaborative Case-Studies. 4. Portrait Therapy as a Collaborative Intervention: Paint Me This Way! 5. Increasing the Patients' Creative Capacity to Adapt to Illness. 6. Mirroring and Attunement through Portraiture: Intersubjective and Symbolic Ways of Knowing, Being and Relating. 7. Making Special, Making Meaning: Increasing the Lived Experience of Homelike-Being-in-the-World and Ontological Security. Part III. Portrait Therapy Protocol and Evaluation Methods. 8. A Therapist's Manual: The Three Phases of Portrait Therapy. 9. Making Connections: Evaluating Portrait Therapy. 10. Afterword: Drawing Conclusions. Appendix 1. Images used in the Portrait Reference Album (PRA). 2. Semi-structured end of project interview (EPI) questions used to evaluate portrait therapy. References.
• Publisher Details: London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 616.891656; Art therapy; Identity (Psychology); Self-perception; Chronic diseases -- Psychological aspects; Critically ill -- Psychology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781784506056
• Related ISBNs: 9781785922930
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