Psychotherapy

Wicca

February 26, 2009 Art+Psyche

In this recent Counselor Magazine article – Spirituality Around the World, Culturally Diverse Approaches to 12-Step, are thoughtful cross-denominational views of approaches to 12-Step recovery for addictions – the approaches being Islamic, Christian, Jewish and Buddhist. Here are gems from the Buddhist Rev. Koyo S. Kubose: There is no sin in Buddhism, only ignorance. The [...]

Tagged as: Place, Poetry, Psychotherapy

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Great Beauty – distressed yet extant

February 24, 2009 Art+Psyche

She been washed, she’s been “in and out of the garbage pail” (apologies to Fritz Perls) – yet she’s extant, as she is. Here is Great Beauty. Ron Dowd Great Beauty Ink and acrylic on paper, 53 x 68 cm From an article about Gestalt and Perls: For Fritz, self-actualization is to be all that [...]

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Carl Rogers, the Gloria films, and prizing the person

February 24, 2009 Art+Psyche

There’s a whole complicated background to Everett Shostrom’s “Gloria” films of 1964, much of which I’m not au fait with. The three films, as I understand it, were the first time that then famous psychotherapists worked with a (same) real client, on film – these giants being Carl Rogers (human -centered), Fritz Perls (old-fashioned not-so-relational [...]

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A paintbrush and “nothing to lose”

February 17, 2009 Art+Psyche

The NY Times has a great article on the painter Cordula Volkening, a woman with a paintbrush and “nothing to lose” (as she says). Cordula was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2007, and given three months of live. Her response: “I stay in the moment – it’s keeping me sane” – and she paints, in [...]

Tagged as: Art, Psychotherapy

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The Closing of the Rose

February 7, 2009 Art+Psyche

The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University is a long way from here, and I’ve never been there. And it looks like I never will, as by all accounts it’s closing – and the art blogosphere has been buzzing with the shock. I feel sad about it, and despite the geographical distance feel it as [...]

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Meaning and neurophysiology

January 26, 2009 Art+Psyche

Polanyi’s book Meaning has continued to play on my mind since recently making a little book of drawings and my recent post The Lost Power of an Explicated Metaphor. Specifically, it’s his examples of skills that require a number of levels that have stayed with me (these he presents as indicators of how the mind-body [...]

Tagged as: Art, Noumenal Field, Psychotherapy

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The lost power of an explicated metaphor

January 10, 2009 Art+Psyche

Here’s a small book of drawings I made over Christmas, while reading Meaning, by Michael Polanyi and Harry Prosch. Not that what I was reading was consciously directing the drawing – only afterwards did I realise that the space I’d been inhabiting, reading these rich ideas (Polanyi’s, principally), had influenced my at-the-time supposedly unrelated process [...]

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Un- and the new business cards

January 6, 2009 Art+Psyche

Un- has been around since 2003 as a poem, posted at my old art site. Recently I wanted to explore again the potential crossover between text and the (spatial) field that I’m so interested in, and I’ve made a few (sometimes failed!) attempts at this in the past. I find it a hard thing to [...]

Tagged as: Art, Poetry, Psychotherapy

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Black horse and rider, a “strange coloured fish”

December 19, 2008 Art+Psyche

The NY Times published an interesting article earlier this year on Pain as an Art form, and it has good two slide shows around the subject (Visualizing Pain and Migraine Art). Here’s an image from the second slide show which has stayed with me for a while now. I can make the connection to the [...]

Tagged as: Art, James Hillman, Outsiders, Psychotherapy

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Heinrich Anton Muller and his “useless” machines

December 13, 2008 Art+Psyche

I’ve been reading about Heinrich Anton Muller in Colin Rhodes’ excellent book Outsider Art – Spontaneous Alternatives and am struck by Muller’s preoccupation with the construction of machines of no obvious purpose. (Muller was an inmate of the Munsingen asylum in Switzerland from 1906, for the last 24 years of his life.) In this NY [...]

Tagged as: Art, Heinrich Anton Muller, James Hillman, Outsiders, Pablo Picasso, Psychotherapy

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