1st Edition

Shame and the Making of Art A Depth Psychological Perspective

By Deborah Cluff Copyright 2018
140 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

138 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

138 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Shame remains at the core of much psychological distress and can eventuate as physical symptoms, yet experiential approaches to healing shame are sparse. Links between shame and art making have been felt, intuited, and examined, but have not been sufficiently documented by depth psychologists. Shame and the Making of Art addresses this lacuna by surveying depth psychological conceptions of... Read more

List of Figures 

Acknowledgements 

Introduction  

1. Research Approach  

2. Defining Shame and its Impacts 

3. The Art of Assemblage  

4. Approaching Shame  

5. Shame and Self-Expression: A Heuristic Study  

6. Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis  

7. Conclusions 

References

Biography

Deborah Cluff completed her PhD in Depth Psychology at the Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA, in 2015.