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Art Heals

How Creativity Cures the Soul

By: Shaun McNiff

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Art Heals

How Creativity Cures the Soul

By: Shaun McNiff

A leader in art therapy shares powerful developments in the field and provides a road-map for unlocking the spiritual and emotional healing benefits of creative expression The field of art therapy is discovering that artistic expression can be a powerful means of personal transformation and emotional and spiritual healing. In this book, Shaun McNiff—a leader in expressive arts therapy for more than three decades—reflects on a wide spectrum of activities aimed at reviving art’s traditional healing function. In chapters ranging from “Liberating Creativity” and “The Practice of Creativity in the Workplace” to “From Shamanism to Art Therapy,” he illuminates some of the most progressive views in the rapidly expanding field of art therapy, including: • The “practice of imagination” as a powerful force for transformation • A challenge to literal-minded psychological interpretations of artworks (“black colors indicate depression”) and the principle that even disturbing images have inherent healing properties • The role of the therapist in promoting an environment conducive to free expression and therapeutic energies • The healing effects of group work, with people creating alongside one another and interacting in the studio • “Total expression,” combining arts such as movement, storytelling, and drumming with painting and drawing

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Shambhala Publications

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0834827298

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9780834827295

Art-based Research

By: Shaun McNiff

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Art-based Research

By: Shaun McNiff

Art therapy and all of the other creative arts therapies have promoted themselves as ways of expressing what cannot be conveyed in conventional language. Why is it that creative arts therapists fail to apply this line of thinking to research? In this exciting and innovative book, Shaun McNiff, one of the field's pioneering educators and authors, breaks new ground in defining and inspiring art-based research. He illustrates how practitioner-researchers can become involved in art-based inquiries during their educational studies and throughout their careers, and shows how new types of research can be created that resonate with the artistic process. Clearly and cogently expressed, the theoretical arguments are illustrated by numerous case examples, and the final part of the book provides a wealth of ideas and thought provoking questions for research. This challenging book will prove invaluable to creative art therapy educators, students, and clinicians who wish to approach artistic inquiry as a way of conducting research. It will also find a receptive audience within the larger research community where there is a rising commitment to expanding the theory and practice of research. Integrating artistic and scientific procedures in many novel ways, this book offers fresh and productive visions of what research can be.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1853026204

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9781853026201

Trust the Process

An Artist's Guide to Letting Go

By: Shaun McNiff

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Trust the Process

An Artist's Guide to Letting Go

By: Shaun McNiff

A guide to embracing the ups and downs of the artistic process—and allowing them to carry you along your unique creative journey Whether in painting, poetry, performance, music, dance, or life, there is an intelligence working in every situation. This force is the primary carrier of creation. If we trust it and follow its natural movement, it will astound us with its ability to find a way through problems—and even make creative use of our mistakes and failures. There is a magic to this process that cannot be controlled by the ego. Somehow it always finds the way to the place where you need to be, and a destination you never could have known in advance. When everything seems as if it is hopeless and going nowhere . . . trust the process.

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Shambhala Publications

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0834826887

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9780834826885

Imagination in Action

Secrets for Unleashing Creative Expression

By: Shaun McNiff

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Imagination in Action

Secrets for Unleashing Creative Expression

By: Shaun McNiff

A guide to the theory and practice of creativity, with proven techniques for jump-starting the creative process—from an esteemed art educator and therapist There are art teachers—and then there’s Shaun McNiff. An accomplished painter himself, he has spent a career helping people access their creative potential through expressive arts therapy. Now, he is sharing the secrets he’s learned from observing his own creative process as well as that of others—both those who identify as artists and those who don’t. The result is nothing less than a master class in creativity by one of the great creative theorists and practitioners of our time. “This is intended as a practical text,” Shaun says, “a creativity primer, striving to capture the essential things that have been of use to me and others.” The wealth of instruction he provides here in these essential things will be indispensable to artists of all stripes, as well as to all who strive to express themselves with honesty and authenticity using any of the media life makes available.

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Shambhala Publications

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0834801973

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9780834801974

Art as Medicine

Creating a Therapy of the Imagination

By: Shaun McNiff

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Art as Medicine

Creating a Therapy of the Imagination

By: Shaun McNiff

A pioneering art therapist extolls the arts as a powerful tool in psychotherapy, describing how activating the imagination can heal the mind, heart, and soul The medicine of the artist, like that of the shaman, arises from his or her relationship to “familiars”—the themes, methods, and materials that interact with the artist through the creative process. “Whenever illness is associated with loss of soul,” writes Shaun McNiff, “the arts emerge spontaneously as remedies, soul medicine.” Art as Medicine demonstrates how the imagination heals and renews itself through this natural process. Author Shaun McNiff describes his pioneering methods of art therapy—including interpretation through performance and storytelling, creative collaboration, and dialoguing with images—and the ways in which they can revitalize both psychotherapy and art itself.

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Shambhala Publications

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083482728X

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9780834827288

Creating with Others

The Practice of Imagination in Life, Art, and the Workplace

By: Shaun McNiff

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Creating with Others

The Practice of Imagination in Life, Art, and the Workplace

By: Shaun McNiff

Do you believe that life within an organization means death to the creative process? That creativity is the exclusive province of "artistic types"? Wrong! Shaun McNiff shows how we can all cultivate the special kind of creative energy that is generated by people working together in groups, whether in the workplace or other cooperative communities—wherever individuals come together to pursue a common goal through dialogue, interaction, and teamwork. Creating with Others is designed to address group creativity in both theory and practice. McNiff draws examples from the creative arts as well as from organizational life and everyday work situations. He shows how leaders can be facilitators of creative teamwork, and how artists and other creative people can collaborate fruitfully with others. The book includes exercises and questions that can be used in courses, informal discussion groups, and interactive e-groups. It will also help individual readers—ranging from beginners to artists seeking inspiration—to reflect upon their personal relationship with creativity. Readers will find that they are never alone in the creative process. Creativity is the basic interplay of life, and we establish a vital link to its power through engagements with others.

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Shambhala Publications

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1590307917

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9781590307915

Imagination in Action

Secrets for Unleashing Creative Expression

By: Shaun McNiff

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Secrets for Unleashing Creative Expression

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1611802016

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Earth Angels

Engaging the Sacred in Everyday Things

By: Shaun McNiff

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Earth Angels

Engaging the Sacred in Everyday Things

By: Shaun McNiff

By the time you finish this book, the term "inanimate object" will no longer have a place in your vocabulary, for Shaun McNiff will awaken you to the wondrous energies streaming out of familiar things and bringing a sense of magic into everyday life. Join the author as he discovers the autonomous spirits of a silver Mercedes convertible, a mysterious cigarette burn on the dining room table, and the scary shadow of a tree outside a child's room. Contemplate with him the bleakness of a hotel conference room and the crucifix that hung over his childhood bed. Let him lead you on a field trip to the "unholy lands" of the shopping mall and faculty meeting, to the familiar spirits of his seaside New England homes, to the realm of dream, reverie, and memory, as he demonstrates how to connect with the life-giving energies of images and things, places and people. These are the earth angels—spirits of everyday life that call for the return of our lost soul to the world. Unlike the images of winged beings that now pervade popular culture, the earth angels also include the soul's unattractive messengers, whose mission may require offense, pain, or fear as a preparation for change and renewal. Does a Styrofoam cup have soul? McNiff says yes, for the most debased things show us that the presence of the divine depends upon the quality of attention that we bring to our experiences.

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Shambhala Publications

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1570626405

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9781570626401

Integrating the Arts in Therapy

History, Theory, And Practice

By: Shaun McNiff

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Integrating the Arts in Therapy

History, Theory, And Practice

By: Shaun McNiff

In 1981, the author first published the groundbreaking, classic text, The Arts and Psychotherapy. This book is a rework of the original text. This new work integrates theory with practice, drawing upon concrete examples and case studies. It details the emergence of a multidisciplinary approach to working with people everywhere and offers glimpses into clinical work with children, adolescents and adults.

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Charles C Thomas Publisher

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0398085552

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9780398085551

Art-Based Research

By: Shaun McNiff

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Art-Based Research

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1846428955

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Trust the Process

An Artist's Guide to Letting Go

By: Shaun McNiff

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An Artist's Guide to Letting Go

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Art as Medicine

Creating a Therapy of the Imagination

By: Shaun McNiff

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Creating a Therapy of the Imagination

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Depth Psychology of Art

By: Shaun McNiff

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Depth Psychology of Art

By: Shaun McNiff

By Shaun McNiff, Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts. CONTENTS: Introduction; Nomenclature; Interpretation; Re-Imagining the Artist as a Therapist; Self Inquiry. Bibliography.

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Charles C. Thomas Publisher

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0398082391

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9780398082390

Kelley's Textbook of Rheumatology

By: William N. Kelley,Gary S. Firestein,Shaun Ruddy

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Kelley's Textbook of Rheumatology

By: William N. Kelley,Gary S. Firestein,Shaun Ruddy

This 7th Edition continues to be the most definitive, comprehensive, and well-referenced resource to consult for important facts and analyses of all basic and clinical science in the field of rheumatology. Provides authoritative and encyclopedic coverage of not only the etiology and pathogenesis of the rheumatic diseases, but also of biology of the normal joint, immune and inflammatory responses, evaluation of the patient, musculoskeletal pain and the musculoskeletal exam, diagnostic tests and procedures, clinical pharmacology, and much more. This edition features a bound-in DVD-ROM that includes all of the images from the book, additional 4-color images not included in the text, video clips of general examinations (approx. length 45 minutes)and screening examinations (approx. length 30 minutes). Each chapter also has a set of multiple choice questions for use for board review study included on the DVD. Found-in DVD-ROM features: Over an hour of video clips of the musculoskeletal examination and abnormal arthroscopic findings. Over 200 additional 4-color images NOT in the book.. Image library for PowerPoint downloads includes all images. Self-assessment questions for Board review. Features new chapters on: Antigen Presenting Cells Synoviocytes Chondrocytes Signal Transduction in Rheumatic Diseases Recruitment of Cells and Angiogenesis Economic Burden of Rheumatic Diseases Education of Patients Anti-Cytokine Therapies Familial Auto-Inflammatory Syndromes. Explores hot topics such as: Pediatric Rheumatology Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome SLE The complex roles of cytokines in normal immunity and rheumatic disease The pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis.

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1016

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Saunders

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0721601413

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9780721601410

Book's by Shaun McNiff

Art Heals

Art Heals

Art-based Research

Art-based Research

Trust the Process

Trust the Process

Imagination in Action

Imagination in Action

Art as Medicine

Art as Medicine

Creating with Others

Creating with Others

Imagination in Action

Imagination in Action

Earth Angels

Earth Angels

Integrating the Arts in Therapy

Integrating the Arts in Therapy

Art-Based Research

Art-Based Research

Trust the Process

Trust the Process

Art as Medicine

Art as Medicine

Depth Psychology of Art

Depth Psychology of Art

Kelley's Textbook of Rheumatology

Kelley's Textbook of Rheumatology

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