Jungian Approach to Spontaneous Drawing - A Window on the Soul

Patricia Anne Elwood provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to exploring spontaneous images. Illustrated with client drawings throughout, the book poignantly demonstrates how one can connect and access the spheres within through drawing, and how this process can reveal the unexpected.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. Jung's Journey to the Soul; Chapter 2. Structure and Dynamics in Drawings; Chapter 3. Psychic Energy or Libido; Chapter 4. Janie and "The Wall"; Chapter 5. The Symbol; Chapter 6. The Collective Unconscious, Instincts and Archetypes; Chapter 7. The Transcendent Function; Chapter 8. Alphonso and the Red Toad; Chapter 9. Totemism; Chapter 10. Bobby and the Fish; Chapter 11. The Tree drawing; Chapter 12. The House drawing; Chapter 13. The Person drawing; Checklist; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

About the author

Patricia Anne Elwood attended the Jung Institute in Zurich, where she completed her post-graduate diplomas in analytical psychology for children and adolescents and for adults. She lives and practices in Lausanne, Switzerland. She has taught in universities, as well as in clinical and educational fields and to professionals from a diversity of disciplines.

Summary

Patricia Anne Elwood provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to exploring spontaneous images. Illustrated with client drawings throughout, the book poignantly demonstrates how one can connect and access the spheres within through drawing, and how this process can reveal the unexpected.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Elwood, Patricia Anne Elwood
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2019
• EAN: 9780367209704
• ISBN: 978-0-367-20970-4
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 246 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling, Psychology: states of consciousness, Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama), Analytical and Jungian psychology, Analytical & Jungian psychology, Conscious & unconscious, Creative therapy / Expressive therapies, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Jungian