Imagining Animals - Art, Psychotherapy and Primitive States of Mind

This classic edition of Imagining Animals explores how the making of animal images in art therapy and child psychotherapy can act as a powerful catalyst for children who may be struggling with communication.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Caroline Case
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.07.2025
• EAN: 9781041002482
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4100248-2
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Routledge Mental Health Classic Editions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Child & Adolescent, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Creative therapy (eg art, music, drama), Psychotherapy: child and adolescent, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Creative therapy / Expressive therapies