{"product_id":"cancer-and-creativity-9780815383260","title":"Cancer and Creativity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCancer and Creativity \u003c\/em\u003eis a dialogue between accounts by cancer patients and survivors and a more clinical consideration and theoretical discussion from a psychoanalytic point of view of using creativity in coping with serious illness. The contributions featured demonstrate the power of creative expression as a tool for dealing with somatic, chronic and potentially life-threatening illnesses, giving patients a way of expressing and managing their individual cancer journeys and its attendant emotional sequelae.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen artist-patients and survivors, who were involved in several long-term art therapy groups, give accounts of their experiences with cancer and with their support group, where they create paintings, embroidery, digital photography, comic books, maps and other works to express their experiences of being diagnosed and treated for cancer. The contributors describe their symptoms and their relationships to physicians and family members in words and visual representa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Cancer and Creativity is an outstanding book that combines patients’ experiences as displayed through art with an editor and clinician who has worked with people with cancer through art for many years. Esther has been a long time member of my UCLA Pediatric Pain Program and has worked with adult patients with cancer at UCLA for many years. As an artist and psychoanalyst, as well as a trained art therapist, she blends her skills, training, and experience to bring together a \"must read\" for any individual coping with cancer or any clinician who works with individuals who have cancer. This amazing book is also a resource for any clinician who wants to understand the psychodynamics of individuals with cancer through the media of art. Actually it is a fascinating book for any reader!\"-\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonnie Zeltzer, MD\u003c\/b\u003e, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Cancer and Creativity offers the reader coherent ways of coping – even mastering – the overwhelming traumata associated with a cancer diagnosis. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eDr. Dreifuss-Kattan\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e explains and convincingly demonstrates how and why art making can heal the psychological damage connected with cancer. Using a wide range of art materials and artistic projects including digital photography, paper cutouts, installations as well as traditional materials such as paint or clay, the authors provide eloquent examples of how a reader could learn to work effectively with patients who might otherwise seem beyond reach.This book is a gift to all clinicians working with cancer patients.\"-\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLaurie Wilson, Ph.D., \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA.T.R.\u003c\/strong\u003e, New York University, USA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Walter Benjamin said that 'Relationships to objects and images can be mysterious and speak to a deep desire for the renewal of the old with the new'. The psychoanalyst and artist \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eDr. Dreifuss-Kattan\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eenables cancer patients in a very impressive way to find a new psychic integration through creative work in view of their life-threatening illness. She lets us readers participate in her sensitive and touching accompaniment of her patients' journey into the unconscious - to the boundaries between life and death. A unique combination of art and psychoanalysis in the service of the patient in existential crises. An innovative, very readable book.\"-\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Ph.D.\u003c\/strong\u003e, Vicechair of the Research Board of the International Psychoanalytical Association, training analyst and former director of the Sigmund-Freud-Institute, Frankfurt am Main, Germany\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eEsther Dreifuss-Kattan and \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eArt by Teresa O’Rourke\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. \u003ci\u003eSigmund Freud’s Consultation Room and the Art Studio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e: Spaces for creative transformation \u003cem\u003eEsther Dreifuss-Kattan and Corinne Lightweaver\u003c\/em\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Art as Transformational Object: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eFinding form and an aesthetic moment \u003cem\u003eEsther Dreifuss-Kattan with Artist Zizi Raymond\u003c\/em\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. One In Eight: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eFighting breast cancer with embroidery and knitting \u003cem\u003eChristine Carey and Suzanne Isken with art by Christine Carey \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e4. Cutting, Pasting and Piercing: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eA memoir \u003cem\u003eCorinne Lightweaver \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003e5. Remembering, Creating, and Working Through \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cem\u003eLoene Trubkin and Esther Dreifuss-Kattan with art by Loene Trubkin \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e6. Art As Life- Saver: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ePhotography\/installation\/Facebook \u003cem\u003eDevon Raymond and Esther Dreifuss-Kattan with art by Zizi Raymond \u003c\/em\u003e7\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e. Understanding My Wonderland-ing:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eSharing my brain tumor experience \u003cem\u003eAshley Myers-Turner, Esther Dreifuss-Kattan with art by Ashley Myers-Turner \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e8. Cancer! Life is Going On Anyway \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNot \"Cancery\" Enough: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eFrom track pants to yoga pants-Fighting melanoma with paper cutouts and comic books \u003cem\u003eMary E. Walter and Esther Dreifuss-Kattan with art by Mary E. Walter \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e9. Cancer Maps and Super Heroes: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eChildren and adolescents express their cancer journey Esther Dreifuss-Kattan and Alyssa Wiesel with art by several kids \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e10. Art, Death and Mourning:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e An artist and art psychotherapist’s perspective \u003cem\u003eEsther Dreifuss-Kattan with art by Howard Bass, Zizi Raymond and Esther Dreifuss-Kattan \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003e11. Art and Cancer in the Public Space\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003c\/b\u003eExhibiting and viewing \u003cem\u003eSusanne Isken \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAppendix. Scribble, Cut, Paste and Paint: \u003c\/strong\u003eCreative transformation through artistic play at home \u003cem\u003eEsther Dreifuss-Kattan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405926801751,"sku":"9780815383260","price":33.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cancer-and-creativity-9780815383260","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}