The Piano and the Couch: Music and Psyche
When trauma stifles the music of talented musicians, the path to recovering artistic expression and salving the soul lies in a deepened understanding of how music and psychology converge.
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The Importance of Working with the Body: Integrating Psychomotor Interventions into Clinical Work
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE APPEARS IN THE THERAPIST (magazine of California MFTs) July/August 2020. PGS.18-22 By MARGRET ELSON The underlying premise for integrating psychomotor interventions in traditional psychotherapy is based on the mounting evidence that emotional and physical processes underlie our … Continue reading
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Towards an Integrated Life: Thoughts on Aging and the Artistic Process
In an exhibit of Picasso’s drawings of a horse, done over the artist’s lifetime, one remarks on a rather extraordinary feature: rather than getting more complex over time, the drawings become increasingly simple until finally Picasso conjures up the animal … Continue reading
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Artists Speak: Artists on the Artistic Process
Artists on the Artistic Process: Rollo May: Psychologist, Author “The task of becoming human is an artist’s task, and art is the birthright shared by us all.” “Beauty is born in play…(Schiller’s) idea of play is an accurate description of … Continue reading
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