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A Jungian Circumambulation of Art and Therapy: Ornithology for the Birds

Author(s) : Michael Edwards, Editor : Malcolm M. Learmonth, Editor : Karen Huckvale

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'Michael Edwards' reflections on art, depth psychology, Jung, therapy and healing display a keen understanding of each and create a forceful synergy, the likes of which I rarely see and greatly admire. In keeping with the lead metaphor of the book, the ideas have wings that carry the reader inside to the marrow of art and out to the world today, moving in sync with the archetypal mainstream of human experience. Edwards is a kindred spirit to all of us who honour images and art's healing powers. Jung is fully aligned with the arts in therapy, all of which can trace their most vital and creative contemporary practices to his exploration of the full spectrum of human expression at the start of the 20th century. His relationship with art and artists, fractured by restrictive statements about the creative process which I have always felt contradict the empirical practice of active imagination, is made whole. The book will appeal to artists looking for a threshold into the arts in therapy which respects the nonlinear depths and transformative crucible of the creative act.'
- Shaun McNiff, University Professor at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, author of Art Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul; Art as Medicine: Creating a Therapy of the Imagination; Integrating the Arts in Therapy and Trust the Process: An Artist's Guide to Letting Go