Imagining Animals

Imagining Animals
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9781317822028
ISBN-13 : 1317822021
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Imagining Animals by : Caroline Case

Imagining Animals explores the making of animal images in art therapy and child psychotherapy. It examines two contrasting primitive states of mind: the investing of the world about us with life through animism and participation mystique, and the lifeless world of autistic states of mind encountered in children who are hard to reach. Caroline Case examines how the emergence of animal imagery in therapy can act as a powerful catalyst for children in autistic states of mind, or with a background of trauma, abuse or depression. She also looks at animal / human relationships, and animal symbolism, as well as three-dimensional claywork and the development of personality. Subjects covered include: * animals on stage in therapy - anthropomorphic animal objects * the location of self in animals * entangled and confusional children: analytical approaches to psychotic thinking and autistic features in childhood. The book concludes with a compelling extended case study, which describes analytic work with a child with multiple symptoms, using the various therapeutic tools of play and art, painting and clay, and the development of character, plot and narrative. Imagining Animals offers a unique insight into the role and representation of animal imagery in art therapy and child psychotherapy, which will be of interest to all arts and play therapists working with children as well as adult psychotherapists interested in the use of imagery.

Imagining Animals

Imagining Animals
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 260
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781317822011
ISBN-13 : 1317822013
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Imagining Animals by : Caroline Case

Imagining Animals explores the making of animal images in art therapy and child psychotherapy. It examines two contrasting primitive states of mind: the investing of the world about us with life through animism and participation mystique, and the lifeless world of autistic states of mind encountered in children who are hard to reach. Caroline Case examines how the emergence of animal imagery in therapy can act as a powerful catalyst for children in autistic states of mind, or with a background of trauma, abuse or depression. She also looks at animal / human relationships, and animal symbolism, as well as three-dimensional claywork and the development of personality. Subjects covered include: * animals on stage in therapy - anthropomorphic animal objects * the location of self in animals * entangled and confusional children: analytical approaches to psychotic thinking and autistic features in childhood. The book concludes with a compelling extended case study, which describes analytic work with a child with multiple symptoms, using the various therapeutic tools of play and art, painting and clay, and the development of character, plot and narrative. Imagining Animals offers a unique insight into the role and representation of animal imagery in art therapy and child psychotherapy, which will be of interest to all arts and play therapists working with children as well as adult psychotherapists interested in the use of imagery.

Imagining Animals

Imagining Animals
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 260
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1583919589
ISBN-13 : 9781583919583
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Imagining Animals by : Caroline Case

Imagining Animals offers a unique insight into the role and representation of animal imagery in art therapy and child psychotherapy, which will be of interest to all arts and play therapists working with children

Imagining Extinction

Imagining Extinction
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 299
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ISBN-10 : 9780226358161
ISBN-13 : 022635816X
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Imagining Extinction by : Ursula K. Heise

We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, biologists claim—the first one caused by humans. Heise argues that understanding these stories and symbols is indispensable for any effective advocacy on behalf of endangered species. More than that, she shows how biodiversity conservation, even and especially in its scientific and legal dimensions, is shaped by cultural assumptions about what is valuable in nature and what is not.

Representing Animals

Representing Animals
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 025321551X
ISBN-13 : 9780253215512
Rating : 4/5 (1X Downloads)

Synopsis Representing Animals by : Nigel Rothfels

There are complex & often surprising connections between our imagining of animals & our cultural environment. Topics discussed in this collection include fox hunting, pet cloning, animatronic characters & how we displace our fear of aging onto our dogs.

Animals and the Human Imagination

Animals and the Human Imagination
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 390
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ISBN-10 : 9780231152976
ISBN-13 : 0231152973
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Animals and the Human Imagination by : Aaron Gross

This interdisciplinary and cross-cultural collection reflects the growth of animal studies as an independent field and the rise of 'animality' as a critical lens through which to analyze society and culture, on par with race and gender.

The Animal Part

The Animal Part
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 175
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ISBN-10 : 9780226650852
ISBN-13 : 0226650855
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis The Animal Part by : Mark Payne

How can literary imagination help us engage with the lives of other animals? The question represents one of the liveliest areas of inquiry in the humanities, and Mark Payne seeks to answer it by exploring the relationship between human beings and other animals in writings from antiquity to the present. Ranging from ancient Greek poets to modernists like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, Payne considers how writers have used verse to communicate the experience of animal suffering, created analogies between human and animal societies, and imagined the kind of knowledge that would be possible if human beings could see themselves as animals see them. The Animal Part also makes substantial contributions to the emerging discourse of the posthumanities. Payne offers detailed accounts of the tenuousness of the idea of the human in ancient literature and philosophy and then goes on to argue that close reading must remain a central practice of literary study if posthumanism is to articulate its own prehistory. For it is only through fine-grained literary interpretation that we can recover the poetic thinking about animals that has always existed alongside philosophical constructions of the human. In sum, The Animal Part marks a breakthrough in animal studies and offers a significant contribution to comparative poetics.

Thinking with Animals

Thinking with Animals
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9780231503778
ISBN-13 : 0231503776
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Thinking with Animals by : Lorraine Daston

Is anthropomorphism a scientific sin? Scientists and animal researchers routinely warn against "animal stories," and contrast rigorous explanations and observation to facile and even fanciful projections about animals. Yet many of us, scientists and researchers included, continue to see animals as humans and humans as animals. As this innovative new collection demonstrates, humans use animals to transcend the confines of self and species; they also enlist them to symbolize, dramatize, and illuminate aspects of humans' experience and fantasy. Humans merge with animals in stories, films, philosophical speculations, and scientific treatises. In their performance with humans on many stages and in different ways, animals move us to think. From Victorian vivisectionists to elephant conservation, from ancient Indian mythology to pet ownership in the contemporary United States, our understanding of both animals and what it means to be human has been shaped by anthropomorphic thinking. The contributors to Thinking with Animals explore the how and why of anthropomorphism, drawing attention to its rich and varied uses. Prominent scholars in the fields of anthropology, ethology, history, and philosophy, as well as filmmakers and photographers, take a closer look at how deeply and broadly ways of imagining animals have transformed humans and animals alike. Essays in the book investigate the changing patterns of anthropomorphism across different time periods and settings, as well as their transformative effects, both figuratively and literally, upon animals, humans, and their interactions. Examining how anthropomorphic thinking "works" in a range of different contexts, contributors reveal the ways in which anthropomorphism turns out to be remarkably useful: it can promote good health and spirits, enlist support in political causes, sell products across boundaries of culture of and nationality, crystallize and strengthen social values, and hold up a philosophical mirror to the human predicament.

Pretending and Imagination in Animals and Children

Pretending and Imagination in Animals and Children
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 390
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ISBN-10 : 0521283329
ISBN-13 : 9780521283328
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Pretending and Imagination in Animals and Children by : Robert W. Mitchell

This book provides an overview of recent research presenting conflicting interpretations of children's understanding of the psychology of pretense and describes sociocultural factors which influence children's pretenses. Studies of nonhuman primates provide examples of their pretenses and other simulative activities, explore their representational and imaginative capacities and compare their skills with children. Although the psychological requirements for pretending are controversial, evidence presented in this volume suggests that great apes and even monkeys may share capacities for imagination with children and that children's early pretenses may be less psychological than they appear.

Animals and the Human Imagination

Animals and the Human Imagination
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 389
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780231152969
ISBN-13 : 0231152965
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Animals and the Human Imagination by : Aaron S. Gross

This interdisciplinary and cross-cultural collection reflects the growth of animal studies as an independent field and the rise of 'animality' as a critical lens through which to analyze society and culture, on par with race and gender.