The Metaphoric Body

Guide to Expressive Therapy through Images and Archetypes

JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERSISBN: 9781853021527

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By Leah Bartal, Nira Neeman
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240

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Introduction to the metaphoric body; stepping stones; creative process; the way we work and how to use the book. Part 1 Resources of the physical body I - the body from anatomy to metaphor: skeleton - bone, muscle, skin; hands - communication, touch stories; back - sensitivity, awareness, expressiveness; pelvis - centre of power ''Tantien''; feet - grounding, animals; breathing and sound; ''rigid and soft''; personal responses. Part 2 Resources of the physical body II - the body in relation to objects and as social communicator: use of objects - Rosemary (developing free association), plants and trees as metaphors, masks (masked images of the soul), individuals in a museum environment; the body as social communicator - circles (a favourite game), boundaries (individual space and limit), density and open space, polarities and opposites (movement and stillness), hands as messengers, the mother, childhood landscape, personal responses; Taoist elements - origin of the five elements, phase one (preparing the ground; allegorical journey), phase two (imaging in symbols and archetypes - touching the emotional and spiritual levels), personal reflections (the five elements in the creative process), wood, earth, metal/air, fire, water, the 5 in 1. Part 3 Resources of the mythological body: ''serious play''; stories from Biblical sources - the scapegoat (Abraham and Isaac), Lea and Rachel (mothers of the tribes), Rebekah (the Jewish mother), Deborah (judge, prophetess, poet), Ezekiel's dream (dry bones); stories from Greek sources - Aphrodite (Goddess of spontaneous love and beauty and the tasks of psyche - the creative process), Oedipus (the classical tragedy - understanding one's own fate), the marriage of Dionysus and Ariadne (the labyrinthian process, abandonment, and the soul marriage.

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