Jazz and Psychotherapy: Perspectives on the Complexity of Improvisation

ISBN-13: 9781032081731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 288 str.

Simeon Alev

Opis

Blending the insights of musicians and psychologists from D.W. Winnicott to Gregory Bateson to Ornette Coleman, Jazz and Psychotherapy is a groundbreaking exploration of improvisation that reveals its potential to transform our experience of ourselves and the challenges we face as a species.

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Jazz and Psychotherapy:

Perspectives on the Complexity of Improvisation

　

　

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 — Improvisation, Culture, and Play

2 — Infancy, Childhood, and Transitional Phenomena

3 — Intersubjectivity and the Unconscious

4 — Discovering Voice

5 — Free Association and Improvisational Space

6 — Complexity, Spontaneity, and Authenticity

7 — Musical Dynamics of Early Development

8 — Symbolization and Metaphor

9 — Loops and Spirals

10 — Order and Disorder

11 — Shifting Paradigms

12 — The Self in an Evolving World

References

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Simeon Alev is a psychotherapist, a visual artist, a poet and a musician. He earned his doctorate at York University and completed his professional training at the Gestalt Institute of Toronto.