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Creativity, Spirituality, and Mental Health : Exploring Connections.
Title:
Creativity, Spirituality, and Mental Health : Exploring Connections.
Author:
Mayo, Kelley Raab, Dr.
ISBN:
9780754696353
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (188 pages)
Series:
Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Marion Milner on Mysticism and Creativity -- 3 Spirituality and Creativity: Theory and Practice -- 4 Hope and the Religious Imagination -- 5 Issues of Mood and Anxiety -- 6 Eating Disorders -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
This book emphasizes the integral connections between imagination, creativity, and spirituality and their role in healing. Part One highlights the work of a neglected yet important psychoanalyst, Marion Milner - a painter and undeclared mystic - expanding her work on creativity, mysticism, and mental health. Part Two explores imagination and creativity as expressed in fostering hope and in spiritually-oriented therapies, particularly for mood, anxiety, and eating disorders - offering practical application of studies in imagination and the arts. Raab Mayo concludes that both creativity and the potential for transcendence are inherent in the human psyche and can work as allies in the process of healing from mental illness.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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