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Poiesis

The Language of Psychology and the Speech of the Soul

Stephen K. Levine
Foreword by Paolo Knill

Paperback: £16.99 / $26.95

1997, 216mm x 138mm / 8.5in x 5.5in, 144pp
ISBN: 978-1-85302-488-7, BIC 2: MQTC

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Foreword Paolo Knill. Introduction. 1. Psychotherapy and the Arts. 2. The Artist as Therapist: Towards a Poetic Psychology. 3. The Idea of Integration in the Arts Therapies. 4. The Play of Imagination: On the Possibility of Expressive Therapy. 5. Bearing Gifts to the Feast: The Presentation as a Rite of Passage in the Education of Expressive Therapists. 6. Image Abuse and the Dialectic of Interpretation. 7. The Dialectic of Creativity: From Innocence to Experience and Back Again. 8. The Myth of Orpheus: Poetry as a Healing Art. 9. 'And Yet' Poetry After Auschwitz. 10. Brooklyn Memories.

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