Ebook: BipolART: Art in Therapy for Bipolar Disorder
Author: Wheatley Denys N
- Tags: Affective Disorders Psychotic, Analytical Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment, Art, Art and mental illness, Art Therapy, Behavioral Disciplines and Activities, Bipolar Disorder, Complementary Therapies, Humanities, Manic-depressive illness, Mental Disorders, Mood Disorders, Psychiatry and Psychology, Psychotherapy, Rehabilitation, Sensory Art Therapies, Therapeutics, Electronic books
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Springer Netherlands : Imprint : Springer
- City: Dordrecht
- Language: English
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Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter1 Prologue -- By Way of an Introduction; A Little Background; Art and Therapy; Chapter2 Doodles -- From the Beginning; Chapter3 Drawing Doodles; First Example; A Second Example; Where Doodling Might Take You?; Chapter4 Development of the Doodle; Chapter5 A Biological Journey; Chapter6 Reality -- Drawings from Life; Chapter7 A Short Musical Interlude; Chapter8 Abstract Art -- A Mind Roaming Free; Chapter9 Humour -- A Means of Relief; Chapter10 Goaded by Geometry; Chapter11 Epilogue: Art, Creativity and Bipolar Disorder.;Written with disarming honesty by a long-term sufferer of bipolar disorder, with more than half a century's experience of intervention and treatment, this highly personal volume traces the effectiveness of a therapy modality for mental illness that has gained much ground in the past two decades: art. The author began to use art, and in particular doodling, from 1998 as a way of externalizing his feelings. Its expressiveness, accessibility and energy-efficiency was ideally suited to the catatonia he experienced during the bouts of depression that are a feature of bipolar disorder, while as the.
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