[PDF] Dancing With The Unconscious eBook

Author : Danielle Knafo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1136951334

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In writing and lecturing over the past two decades on the relationship between psychoanalysis and art, Danielle Knafo has demonstrated the many ways in which these two disciplines inform and illuminate each other. This book continues that discussion, emphasizing how the creative process in psychoanalysis and art utilizes the unconscious in a quest for transformation and healing. Part one of the book presents case studies to show how free association, transference, dream work, regression, altered states of consciousness, trauma, and solitude function as creative tools for analyst, patient, and artist. Knafo uses the metaphor of dance to describe therapeutic action, the back-and-forth movement between therapist and patient, past and present, containment and release, and conscious and unconscious thought. The analytic couple is both artist and medium, and the dance they do together is a dynamic representation of the boundless creativity of the unconscious mind. Part two of the book offers in-depth studies of several artists to illustrate how they employ various media for self-expression and self-creation. Knafo shows how artists, though mostly creating in solitude, are frequently engaged in significant relational proceses that attempt rapprochement with internalized objects and repair of psychic injury. Dancing with the Unconscious expands the theoretical dimension of psychoanalysis while offering the clinician ways to realize greater creativity in work with patients.

Author : Danielle Knafo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 13,67 MB
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 1136951342

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In writing and lecturing over the past two decades on the relationship between psychoanalysis and art, Danielle Knafo has demonstrated the many ways in which these two disciplines inform and illuminate each other. This book continues that discussion, emphasizing how the creative process in psychoanalysis and art utilizes the unconscious in a quest for transformation and healing. Part one of the book presents case studies to show how free association, transference, dream work, regression, altered states of consciousness, trauma, and solitude function as creative tools for analyst, patient, and artist. Knafo uses the metaphor of dance to describe therapeutic action, the back-and-forth movement between therapist and patient, past and present, containment and release, and conscious and unconscious thought. The analytic couple is both artist and medium, and the dance they do together is a dynamic representation of the boundless creativity of the unconscious mind. Part two of the book offers in-depth studies of several artists to illustrate how they employ various media for self-expression and self-creation. Knafo shows how artists, though mostly creating in solitude, are frequently engaged in significant relational proceses that attempt rapprochement with internalized objects and repair of psychic injury. Dancing with the Unconscious expands the theoretical dimension of psychoanalysis while offering the clinician ways to realize greater creativity in work with patients.

Author : Burton Silver
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,99 MB
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1452141142

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“Marvelously silly photographs . . . in addition to those hilarious images, [there is] much helpful instruction for aspiring dancers with cats.” —The New York Times Discover the mystery and magic of cat dancing with this cult classic, filled with scores of delightful and inspiring photographs of people and cats engaging in their favorite dance routines, as well as moving testimonies of the personal transformations brought about through this uniquely joyous form of human-animal connection. Dancing with Cats will have a new generation of cat lovers (and their cats) jumping for joy—and cutting a rug—in no time.

Author : Danielle Knafo
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 29,35 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Knafo, a feminist psychoanalyst and art critic, extends the discourse between feminism and art history, while revealing core psychological sensibilities involved in women's self-representation - the need for mirroring, the use of mask and masquerade, the drive for reparation, the presence of the uncanny, and the concept of female narcissism. --Publisher.

Author : Joan Chodorow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 12,43 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1135854122

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Dance/movement as active imagination was originated by Jung in 1916. Developed in the 1960s by dance therapy pioneer Mary Whitehouse, it is today both an approach to dance therapy as well as a form of active imagination in analysis. In her delightful book Joan Chodorow provides an introduction to the origins, theory and practice of dance/movement as active imagination. Beginning with her own story the author shows how dance/ movement is of value to psychotherapy. An historical overview of Jung's basic concepts is given as well as the most recent depth psychological synthesis of affect theory based on the work of Sylvan Tomkins, Louis Stewart, and others. Finally in discussing the use of dance/movement as active imagination in practice, the movement themes that emerge and the non-verbal expressive aspects of the therapaeutic relationship are described.

Author : Patty Alfonso
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 43,97 MB
Release : 2018-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781634931946

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Our bodies call us to move and dance and play. We hear the gentle whisper and ignore it most of the time. What if we answered the call to dance and everything in our lives could change? In this cutting-edge compilation, Patty Alfonso has gathered the stories of eight very different and fascinating people. You'll get an unprecedented glimpse into their lives as they share the ways in which dance and movement contribute to the creation of things they never imagined possibleWhat if dancing and movement could change the way you are in the world? What if dancing and movement was one of the many paths in leading a more conscious life? What gifts await for you within your body? Get your bonus gifts for purchasing Dancing as the Body of Consciousness at: www.DancingAsTheBodyOfConsciousness.com.

Author : Frances Lief Neer
Publisher : Wildstar Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780963783905

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A guide for the blind to meet their particular challenges through resources of their remaining four senses in order to lead fulfilling lives.

Author : Thomas H Ogden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 2007-07-25
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1134192266

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Winner of the 2010 Haskell Norman Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Psychoanalysis! This Art of Psychoanalysis offers a unique perspective on psychoanalysis that features a new way of conceptualizing the role of dreaming in human psychology.

Author : Patty Alfonso
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780998370811

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Our bodies call us to move and dance and play. We hear the gentle whisper and ignore it most of the time. What if we answered the call to dance and everything in our lives could change? What if dancing and movement was one of the many paths in leading a more conscious life? Enjoy your bonus at: www.dancingasthebodyofconsciousness.com.

Author : Ellen O'Connell Whittet
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1612198325

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"Poignant and exquisite"--The Los Angeles Review of Books "An inspiring and powerful book"--Booklist "A genuinely absorbing read"--Kirkus "Revelatory, honest, and wondrous."--Chanel Miller, author of Know My Name A lyrical and meditative memoir on the damage we inflict in the pursuit of perfection, the pain of losing our dreams, and the power of letting go of both. With a promising career in classical ballet ahead of her, Ellen O'Connell Whittet was devastated when a misstep in rehearsal caused a career-ending injury. Ballet was the love of her life. She lived for her moments under the glare of the stage-lights--gliding through the air, pretending however fleetingly to effortlessly defy gravity. Yet with a debilitating injury forcing her to reconsider her future, she also began to reconsider what she had taken for granted in her past. Beneath every perfect arabesque was a foot, disfigured by pointe shoes, stuffed--taped and bleeding--into a pink, silk slipper. Behind her ballerina's body was a young girl starving herself into a fragile collection of limbs. Within her love of ballet was a hatred of herself for struggling to achieve the perfection it demanded of her. In this raw and redemptive debut memoir, Ellen O'Connell Whittet explores the silent suffering of the ballerina--and finds it emblematic of the violence that women quietly shoulder every day. For O'Connell Whittet, letting go of one meant confronting the other--only then was it possible to truly take flight.