Ebook: Forms of Vitality: Exploring Dynamic Experience in Psychology, the Arts, Psychotherapy, and Development

Vitality takes on many dynamic forms and permeates daily life, psychology, psychotherapy and the arts, yet what is vitality? We know that it is a manifestation of life, of being alive. We are very alert to its feel in ourselves and its expression in others. Life shows itself in so many different forms of vitality. But just how can we study this phenomenon? This title is divided into three parts. Part I is an introduction and background to vitality. Part II suggests a neuroscientific underpinning for forms of vitality, and shows how the time-based arts require and use these forms. Part III concerns the implications of forms of vitality for developmental and clinical work. This inquiry aims to further identify and explore this realm of dynamic forms of vitality, and to illustrate the breadth of its scope. This title may be helpful in approaching the dynamic dimension from psychological, neuroscientific, and phenomenological perspectives, and may be useful in reorienting some notions of emotion theory, memory structure, and social communication, as well as psychotherapeutic theory and practice.