Imagery and Visual Expression in Therapy
Images as means of expression have fascinated and spoken to me for a long time. Yet it has been a far-reaching and circuitous journey to syn thesize imagery and visual expression in the present form. Early in my life my interest in images expressed itsel
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EMOTIONS, PERSONALITY, AND PSYCHOTHERAPY Series Editors: Carroll E. Izard, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware and Jerome L. Singer, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Recent volumes in the Series
THE COGNITIVE FOUNDAnONS OF PERSONALITY TRAITS Shulamith Kreitler and Hans Kreitler THE EMOTIONAL BRAIN: Physiology, Neuroanatomy, Psychology, and Emotion P. V. Simonov EMOTIONS IN PERSONALITY AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY Edited by Carroll E. Izard FREUD AND MODERN PSYCHOLOGY Volume I: The Emotional Basis of Mental Illness Volume 2: The Emotional Basis of Human Behavior Helen Block Lewis GUIDED AFFECTIVE IMAGERY WITH CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS Hanscarl Leuner, Gunther Horn, and Edda Klessmann IMAGERY AND VISUAL EXPRESSION IN THERAPY Vija Bergs Lusebrink LANGUAGE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY: Strategies of Discovery Edited by Robert L. Russell THE PSYCHOBIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS Jack George Thompson SAMPLING NORMAL AND SCHIZOPHRENIC INNER EXPERIENCE Russell T. Hurlburt SHYNESS: Perspectives on Research and Treatment Edited by Warren H. Jones, Jonathan M. Cheek, and Stephen R. Briggs THE TRANSFORMED SELF: The Psychology of Religious Conversion Chana Ullman
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Imagery and Visual Expression in Therapy Vija Bergs Lusebrink University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky
Plenum Press • New York and London
LIbrary of Congress Cataloglng-In-Publlcatlon Data
Lusebrink, ViJa Bergs. Imagery and visual expression in therapy I Vlja Bergs Lusebrink. p. cm. -- (Emotions, personality, and psychotherapy) Includes bibliographical references. 1. Imagery (Psychology)--Therapeutic use. 2. Psychotherapy. I. Title. II. Series. [ONLM: 1. Art Therapy. 2. Imagination. 3. Psychotherapy. 4. Visual Perception. WM 420 L9681l RC489.F35L87 1990 616.89'14--dc20 ONLM/OLC for Library of Congress 90-6901 CIP
10987654 ISBN 978-1-4757-0446-4 ISBN 978-1-4757-0444-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4757-0444-0
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Preface
Images as means of expression have fascinated and spoken to me for a long time. Yet it has been a far-reaching and circuitous journey to synthesize imagery and visual expression in the present form. Early in my life my interest in images expressed itself in art, first as a young child drawing, then responding to works of art and enjoying the life conveyed through colors, forms, and lines that created recognizable images and suggested different moods. The centering, transformat
