Product Description: Photography shows us how to look at things from different perspectives, to reflect, to communicate and to express ourselves in a way that goes beyond words. The creative and introspective qualities of this accessible arts medium make it an ideal tool for use in therapeutic contexts...read more

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Product Description: PhotoTherapy techniques use ordinary personal snapshots and family photos (and the feelings, memories, thoughts and information these evoke) as catalysts for therapeutic communication and personal healing, reaching areas inside a person that words alone cannot access...read more

This is an innovative and thought-provoking study of the ways in which photographs can enhance psychotherapy sessions, using individual case studies to show to relationship between the photograph and the self.

Product Description: PHOTOGRAPHY IN THERAPY

Product Description: Edited by David A. Krauss, Cuyahoga Valley Community Mental Health Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and jerry L. Fryrear, University of Houston at Clear Lake City, Houston, Texas. (With 13 Contributors) CONTENTS: Phototherapy Introduction and Overview; Phototherapy: Looking into the History of Photography; Reality, Photography and Psychotherapy; The Visual Metaphor: Some Underlying Assumptions of Phototherapy; Photographic Self-Confrontation as Therapy; The Psychological Niche: The Auto-Photographic Study of Self-Environment Interaction; The Family Album as Icon: Photographs in Family Psychotherapy; The Photograph as a Catalyst in Psychotherapy; Instant Phototherapy with Children and Adolescents; Using Photographs in Therapy with People Who are 'Different'; Phototherapy Intervention: Developing a Comprehensive System; A Training Model for the Use of Still Photography in Therapy; Summary...read more