Phototherapy Techniques: Exploring the Secrets of Personal Snapshots and Family Album (The Jossey-Bass social & behavioral science series) - Hardcover

Weiser, Judy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555425526 ISBN 13: 9781555425524

Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S., 1993

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Founder and Director of the Photo Therapy Centre in Vancouver, Canada, and former Editor of the Journal Phototherapy, Judy Weiser is a licensed Psychologist and registered Art Therapist who has focused her thirty-plus years of therapy practice on using Photo Therapy techniques to help her clients heal. She currently consults, lectures, and gives training workshops world-wide, teaching people how to use these techniques to improve their therapy practice -and their lives.

Synopsis:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1555425526
• ISBN 13: 9781555425524
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 410