Cancer and creativity : a psychoanalytic guide to therapeutic transformation / edited by Esther-Dreifuss Kattan.

Cancer and Creativity is a dialogue between accounts by cancer patients and survivors and a more clinical consideration and theoretical discussion from a psychoanalytic point of view of using creativity in coping with serious illness. The contributions featured demonstrate the power of creative expr...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Dreifuss-Kattan, Esther (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
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Table of Contents:
  • Sigmund Freud's consultation room and the art studio : spaces for creative transformation / Esther Dreifuss-Kattan, Corinne Lightweaver
  • Art as transformational object : finding form and an aesthetic moment / Esther Dreifuss-Kattan ; Artist, Zizi Raymond
  • One in eight : fighting breast cancer with embroidery and knitting / Christine Carey, Suzanne Isken ; Artist, Christine Carey
  • Cutting, pasting and piercing : a memoir / Corinne Lightweaver
  • Remembering, creating, and working through / Loene Trubkin, Esther Dreifuss-Kattan ; Artist, Loene Trubkin
  • Art as life- saver : photography/installation/facebook / Devon Raymond, Esther Dreifuss-Kattan ; Artist, Zizi Raymond
  • Understanding my wonderland-ing : sharing my brain tumor experience digital photography/collage / Ashley Myers-Turner, Esther Dreifuss-Kattan ; Artist, Ashley Myers-Turner
  • Cancer! life is going on anyway and not 'cancery' enough : from track pants to yoga pants : fighting melanoma with paper cutouts and comic books / Mary E. Walter, Esther Dreifuss-Kattan ; Artist, Mary E. Walter
  • Cancer maps and super heroes : children and adolescents express their cancer journey / Esther Dreifuss-Kattan, Alyssa Wiesel ; Artists, several kids
  • Art, death and mourning : an artist and art psychotherapist's perspective / Esther Dreifuss-Kattan ; Artists, Howard Bass, Zizi Raymond, Esther Dreifuss-Kattan
  • Art and cancer in the public space : exhibiting and viewing / Susanne Isken.