1st Edition

Mentalizing in Arts Therapies

By Marianne Verfaille Copyright 2016
250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

This book describes the use of therapeutic art, music, and dance interventions against a background of mentalization, thus forging a link between arts therapies and mentalization-based treatment. This book has its roots in the theory of Mentalization Based Treatment by Antony Bateman and Peter Fonagy, and combines the broad experience of many art therapists with art, music and dance/movement... Read more
Foreword , Introduction , Theory , What is mentalizing? , We learn from the outside in, through the mind of another person , First we learn the how, and later we learn the what , Attachment , Terms , “Techniques” , Practice , Mentalizing in arts therapies , The art therapist and the mentalizing stance , A case history: Ellen in art and music therapy , Thumbnail sketches using art as reverse mirroring: the imagination of the artist touches something in the client , A case history: psychomotor therapy and dance and movement therapy , A case history: Ted’s creative process , Forms of group work that promote mentalizing

Biography

Marianne Verfaille