1st Edition
Imagining Animals Art, Psychotherapy and Primitive States of Mind
PART I
Introduction: working with children who are hard
to reach
1. An animal alphabet of our actual and symbolic relationship to
animals
2. Animals on stage in therapy: anthropomorphic animal objects
3. Animation through the window: the beautiful and the sublime
PART II
Introduction: closeness and separation
4. Separation and sleeping difficulties: helpful images with
sleepless children
5. The location of self in animals
6. Entangled and confusional children: analytical approaches to
psychotic thinking and autistic features in childhood
PART III
Introduction: case study: the heart and the bone
7. From calm to chaos and rage
8. Things that go bump in the night, the ‘fish pictures’ and the
development of clay-work
9. The heart and the bone
10. Working towards the end of therapy and conclusions
Biography
Caroline Case worked with children and families in the statutory services and in private practice for 48 years. She has published widely on her therapeutic work as an art therapist and child and adolescent psychotherapist.
'This gem of a book will enrich the thinking of all those working analytically with states of mind in which autistic and psychotic defences predominate. Case distils many years of clinical experience with "difficult-to-reach" child patients into a sensitively crafted work which not only uses a wealth of clinical material, but also stories, poetry and images, to convey her approach in theory and in practice. She offers us the animal world, both in itself and in metaphor, as a medium for contacting and relating to the primitive levels of experience encountered in working with profoundly defended areas of the psyche.'
Katherine Killick, Society of Analytical Psychology
