Authors: Judy Weiser
ISBN-13: 9780968561904, ISBN-10: 096856190X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: PhotoTherapy Centre Press
Date Published: August 1999
Edition: 2nd Edition
In this book, Judy Weiser shows how mental health professionals can use clients' personal photos and family albums as catalysts for therapeutic communication. She reveals how initiating a dialogue based on such personally symbolic artistic expressions gives form to feelings which otherwise might be resistant to verbal investigations. She shows how to use this dialogue to stimulate recall of forgotten, blocked, or denied information and memories, and to apply these insights to an effective therapeutic framework. A comprehensive guide to PhotoTherapy, this book provides the theoretical principles, detailed techniques, anecdotal illustrations, and practical exercises that will help mental health professionals apply this approach in practice. Looking at all types of photographs - whether they are ones that clients respond to, collect, pose for, or create - Weiser describes various ways to engage clients with photographic imagery. Providing several examples from actual cases to illustrate how clients' responses to photographs can be integrated into the therapeutic process, she offers practitioners a powerful therapeutic tool, regardless of their particular theoretical orientation.
Weiser shows how mental health professional can use clients' personal photos and family albums as catalysts for therapeutic communication. She reveals how initiating a dialogue based on such personally symbolic artistic expressions gives form to feelings which otherwise might be resistant to verbal investigations. She shows how to use this dialogue to stimulate recall of forgotten, blocked, or denied information and memories, and to apply these insights to an effective therapeutic framework. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Preface | ||
The Author | ||
1 | Photographs as Therapeutic Tools | 1 |
2 | The Five Techniques of PhotoTherapy | 13 |
3 | The Protective Process: Using Photographic Images to Explore Client Perceptions, Values, and Expectations | 56 |
4 | Working with Self-Portraits: Understanding the Images Clients Make of Themselves | 120 |
5 | Seeing Other Perspectives: Examining Photographs of Clients Taken by Others | 187 |
6 | Metaphors of Self Construction: Reflecting on Photographs Taken or Collected by Clients | 228 |
7 | Photo Systems: Reviewing Family Albums and Photo-Biographical Collections | 285 |
8 | Using Photo Therapy to Promote Healing and Personal Growth | 343 |
References | 349 | |
Recommended Readings | 361 | |
Index | 381 |