Images: Gates to Meaning : Art Therapy and Emerging Adults' Search for their Calling

ISBN-13: 9783639039177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 108 str.

Agathe Lesage

Opis

What should I do with my life? What is my calling?In an age of increased freedom of choice anddiminished social guidance, new structures are neededto help people explore these existential questions ina safe and constructive manner.Focusing on the critical life transition of EmergingAdulthood, the author proposes to use the tools ofart therapy to assist young adults in search of theirpath. Emphasizing an archetypal approach of thecreative process, she examines how the encounter withart media and images can foster the emergence ofpersonal meaning and creative competences towardfinding one''s place in the world. Finally, shepresents her vision of an art-based exploratoryprogram designed to facilitate this process.Richly referenced, this book will be an inspirationto professionals (creative art-therapists andart-educators) who are helping adults in theirpersonal development, as well as those interested inthe relationship between art and psychological unfolding.

O autorze

Agathe Lesage, Ma: Studied Architecture in Paris and Art Therapy
at Concordia University, Canada. Presently Working as an
Art-Therapist in Private Practice and in Various Community
Services in Montreal.