creative imagination in medicine, art, and travel /
First Statement of Responsibility
Robert Bosnak.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
x, 142 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, portrait ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-137) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Into the cave -- A radical change of perspective -- The embodying image -- A display of method -- The dreaming brain and simultaneous multiplicity in space -- Metabolizing trauma -- The endogenous healing response -- Surrender and dissociation -- Kinds of imagination -- Primal matter and tincture, the coloring agent -- Incubation, art, and dreaming by proxy -- The embodied condition.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art, and Travel sets out Robert Bosnak's practice of embodied imagination and demonstrates how he actually works with dreams and memories in groups. The book discusses various approaches to dreams, body and imagination, and combines this with a Jungian, neurobiological, relational, and cultural analysis. The author's fascination with dreams, the most absolute form of embodied imagination, has caused him to travel all over the world. From his research he concludes that while dreaming everyone everywhere experiences dreams as embodied events in time and space while the dreamer is convinced of being awake; it is after waking into our specific cultural stories about dreaming that the widely differing attitudes towards dreams arise.
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By taking dreaming reality, not our waking interpretation of it, as the model for imagination, this book creates a paradigm shock and produces methods which can be applied in a wide variety of cultural settings." "This book discusses a variety of techniques which may be applied by health professionals to their work with patients and clients. It will also be of particular interest to Jungian and relational psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and clinical psychologists, as well as to artists, actors, directors, writers and other individuals who wish to explore the creative imagination."--BOOK JACKET.