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Storymaking in Education and Therapy
Contributor(s): King, Nancy (Author), Gersie, Alida (Author)
ISBN: 1853025208     ISBN-13: 9781853025204
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Ltd
OUR PRICE:   $41.75  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 1999
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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines
Dewey: 616.891
LCCN: 91134627
Physical Information: 0.92" H x 6.82" W x 8.52" (1.35 lbs) 408 pages
 
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Myths and related stories describe essential human experience which, requiring use of the imagination, reconcile and give voice to fantasy and reality. Speaking through images which embrace the paradox of possible and impossible, the likely and the desired, they stimulate our personal expressive abilities in a way quite distinct from the absorption of prescribed images which television and radio present. This book is concerned with rekindling that creative power of the human imagination which in the West has atrophied through neglect. It is concerned with increasing an understanding of the need to exercise our imagination as one of our psychic functions, as well as the need to exercise our bodies.

This book contains myths and tales from all over the world which are grouped around seven themes, all reflective of forms of human experience. The authors suggest ways in which these myths and tales can be used to develop our imagination's original and unique voice through educational and therapeutic encounter, and how this expression can be communicated to others who are engaged in the same task.

Contributor Bio(s): Gersie, Alida: - Alida Gersie is a London-based dramatherapist and organizational consultant. Her work with deprived individuals and communities inspired her to develop a story-based method that facilitates productive change in seemingly hopeless situations. For several decades she was Principal Lecturer in the Postgraduate Arts Therapies Department of the University of Hertfordshire. She has taught the story-based approach to planned change in many countries, and has authored and edited several books.