Group Analytic Art Therapy

SciTech Book News, June, 2006

Group analytic art therapy.

McNeilly, Gerry.

Jessica Kingsley Pub.

2006

230 pages

$24.95

Paperback

RC489

McNeilly is a practicing art psychotherapist in the UK and an art therapy educator in Portugal. Drawing on some 20 years of experience conducting group art therapy, he discusses his theories about group processes and dynamics. Coverage includes an overview of group analytic theory, a brief history of group analytical art therapy, Foulkes' concept of the "group as a whole," the concept of "the individual in the group" and transference constellations. The second half of the text focuses on McNeilly's work with Portuguese colleagues over the past nine years, including research on resonance and intuition; complexity, simplicity, and subtlety; psychotic openings; additional work on the "individual and the group as a whole"; and theories on the "fullness of emptiness." For art therapists, group analysts and psychotherapists.

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