Freud's Art - Psychoanalysis Retold
1st Edition
Published on 12. April 2007
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-415-41567-5 (ISBN)
Description
In Freud's Art - Psychoanalysis Retold Janet Sayers provides a refreshing new introduction to psychoanalysis by retelling its story through art. She does this by bringing together experts from psychoanalysis, art history, and art education to show how art and psychoanalysis illuminate each other.
Freud's Art begins with major founders of psychoanalysis - Freud, Jung, Spielrein and Klein. It then details art-minded developments of their ideas by Adrian Stokes, Jacques Lacan, Marion Milner, Anton Ehrenzweig, Donald Winnicott, and Wilfred Bion before concluding with the recent theories of Jean Laplanche and Julia Kristeva. The result is a book which highlights the importance of psychoanalysis, together with painting and the visual arts, to understanding the centrality of visual imagery, fantasy, nightmares and dreams to all of us, artists and non-artists alike.
Illustrated throughout with fascinating case histories, examples of well known and amateur art, doodles, drawings, and paintings by both analysts and their patients, Freud's Art provides a compelling account of psychoanalysis for all those studying, working in, or simply intrigued by psychology, mental health and creativity today.
Freud's Art begins with major founders of psychoanalysis - Freud, Jung, Spielrein and Klein. It then details art-minded developments of their ideas by Adrian Stokes, Jacques Lacan, Marion Milner, Anton Ehrenzweig, Donald Winnicott, and Wilfred Bion before concluding with the recent theories of Jean Laplanche and Julia Kristeva. The result is a book which highlights the importance of psychoanalysis, together with painting and the visual arts, to understanding the centrality of visual imagery, fantasy, nightmares and dreams to all of us, artists and non-artists alike.
Illustrated throughout with fascinating case histories, examples of well known and amateur art, doodles, drawings, and paintings by both analysts and their patients, Freud's Art provides a compelling account of psychoanalysis for all those studying, working in, or simply intrigued by psychology, mental health and creativity today.
Reviews / Votes
"This book is a lively, engaging, original account of several themes in the relationship between psychoanalytic technique, and the theory of art." - Susan Budd, Member, The British Psychoanalytical Society"Many psychotherapists dabble in one or other of the arts, but few of us show the command of two disciplines that Sayers displays in this rich and thoughtful book. Highly recommended." - Brendan McMahon, Mental Health Today, December 2007
"In Freud's Art: Psychoanalysis Retold, Janet Sayers has produced a highly readable and fascinating book which contributes to an historical understanding of Art Therapy by demonstrating that creativity, imagination and the visual arts have played a complementary role to that of verbal language within the development of psychoanalysis." - Jamie Bird, BAAT: Newsbriefing, Spring 2009 "This book is a lively, engaging, original account of several themes in the relationship between psychoanalytic technique, and the theory of art." - Susan Budd, Member, The British Psychoanalytical Society
"Many psychotherapists dabble in one or other of the arts, but few of us show the command of two disciplines that Sayers displays in this rich and thoughtful book. Highly recommended." - Brendan McMahon, Mental Health Today, December 2007
"In Freud's Art: Psychoanalysis Retold, Janet Sayers has produced a highly readable and fascinating book which contributes to an historical understanding of Art Therapy by demonstrating that creativity, imagination and the visual arts have played a complementary role to that of verbal language within the development of psychoanalysis." - Jamie Bird, BAAT: Newsbriefing, Spring 2009
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Illustrations
41 s/w Abbildungen, 15 farbige Abbildungen
15 Illustrations, color; 41 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-41567-5 (9780415415675)
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Person
Janet Sayers (nee Toulson) teaches psychoanalysis at Kent University, Canterbury, and also works as a psychotherapist, both privately and for the NHS.
Content
Introduction. Freud. Jung. Spielrein. Klein. Stokes. Lacan. Milner. Ehrenzweig. Winnicott. Bion. Laplanche. Kristeva. Conclusion.