Author(s): Shaun McNiff

Creativity & Art Therapies | Psychology, Self-Help & Wellbeing

This book shows how the expressive arts therapies contain the potential for renewal in both art and psychotherapy. The author first describes the theoretical basis for his vision of art as medicine, citing the archetypal psychology of James Hillman, writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Friedrich Nietzsche, mythologies such as Mircea Eliade, Henri Corbin and British scholar Jane Harrison and others. The medicine of the artist, like that of the shaman, arises from his or her relationship to "familiars"