1st Edition

Dreaming, Healing and Imaginative Arts Practice

By Kathleen Connellan Copyright 2019
152 Pages 24 Color & 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

152 Pages 24 Color & 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

152 Pages 24 Color & 37 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In Dreaming, Healing and Imaginative Arts Practice , Kathleen Anne Connellan brings dream theory together with art practice and art psychotherapy to demonstrate how releasing the imagination can open-up processes of healing. In this interdisciplinary and richly innovative book, Connellan focuses on nocturnal dreams, day dreams, memory and reverie, and she explores how to access, depict and... Read more

List of Figures. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction;  Chapter 1: What is a dream? Keeping a dream journal;  Chapter 2: Who am I and why? Archetypes and shadows;  Chapter 3: Belonging: Dreaming and place;  Chapter 4: Movement dreams: Escaping and returning;  Chapter 5: The object and its crisis: Locating pain and pleasure;  Chapter 6: Sensory triggers: Beyond sight;  Conclusion;  Index.

 

Biography

Dr Kathleen Anne Connellan is a retired Senior Lecturer from the School of Art, Architecture and Design at the University of South Australia. She is now a creative therapist and author committed to bringing the mind, body and soul together, and she specialises in incorporating the therapeutic benefits of creativity in healing spaces.

"A fascinating yet practical blend of imagination, art and embodiment that will speak both to the clinical field and to those involved in thinking about their art practices, Connellan is experienced, erudite, lucid and, in creatively crossing outmoded disciplinary boundaries, exceptionally brave and challenging." - Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex, UK