TY - BOOK ID - 77917612 TI - The language of drawings : a new finding in psychodynamic work PY - 2012 SN - 0429907001 042948223X 1280125756 9786613529619 1849409714 9781849409711 1780490178 9781780490175 9781280125751 9781780490175 0429921233 PB - London : Karnac Books, DB - UniCat KW - Drawing. KW - Psychotherapy. KW - Psychagogy KW - Therapy (Psychotherapy) KW - Mental illness KW - Clinical sociology KW - Mental health counseling KW - Drawings KW - Sketching KW - Art KW - Graphic arts KW - Illustration of books KW - Manual training KW - Treatment UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77917612 AB - If a person is struggling with feeling that involve pain or anxiety, then we find a complex network of difficulties affecting that person's capacity to express what torments him. Whatever the person's age, they very often have no access to the words that might convey their internal conflicts. People interacting with that person may believe he is deliberately refusing to express what affects him, but it is certainly true that most times this is not the case. When dealing with children, these difficulties are even more acute. However, children often express in their drawings elements of the conflicts they are experiencing in themselves and the world in which they live.The authorapplied these findings in his work - not only with children and adolescents, but at times also with adults.This fascinating book arose from the discovery that single drawings could at times represent only a part of an underlying emotional experience that "completed" its expression in another picture drawn after that first one. ER -