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The Expressive Body in Life, Art, and Therapy: Working with Movement, Metaphor and Meaning
Daria Halprin
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Description for The Expressive Body in Life, Art, and Therapy: Working with Movement, Metaphor and Meaning
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: MQTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 374.
Drawing on her extensive experience in expressive arts therapy, Daria Halprin presents a unique approach to healing through movement and art. She describes the body as the container of one's entire life experience and movement as a language that expresses and reveals our deepest struggles and creative potentials. Interweaving artistic and psychological processes, she offers a philosophy and methodology that invites the reader to consider the transformational capacity of the arts. In this essential resource for anyone interested in the integration of psychotherapy and the arts, Halprin also presents case studies and a selection of exercises that she has evolved ... Read more
Drawing on her extensive experience in expressive arts therapy, Daria Halprin presents a unique approach to healing through movement and art. She describes the body as the container of one's entire life experience and movement as a language that expresses and reveals our deepest struggles and creative potentials. Interweaving artistic and psychological processes, she offers a philosophy and methodology that invites the reader to consider the transformational capacity of the arts. In this essential resource for anyone interested in the integration of psychotherapy and the arts, Halprin also presents case studies and a selection of exercises that she has evolved ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843107378
SKU
V9781843107378
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About Daria Halprin
Daria Halprin trained since early childhood as a dancer and performance artist and toured internationally in the Dancers' Workshop Company. She has appeared in several films, most noteably in Antonioni's Zabriskie Point. She studied with Fritz Perls, the originator of Gestalt therapy, which led to her interest in psychology. In 1978 she co-founded the Tamalpa Institute, the first training center ... Read more
Reviews for The Expressive Body in Life, Art, and Therapy: Working with Movement, Metaphor and Meaning
In this book is an introductory guide for newcomers to the field of expressive therapy. It includes many concrete examples of Halprin's method in visual illustrations and through a variety of therapeutic excercises. One of the highlights of expressive therapy is its embrace of multiplicity fuelling an initiation into de-territorialised spaces of mind and body, where anything can happen.
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