{"product_id":"art-and-mourning-esther-dreifuss-kattan-9781138886940","title":"Art and Mourning: The Role of Creativity in Healing Trauma and Loss","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eArt and Mourning\u003c\/em\u003e explores the relationship between creativity and the work of self-mourning in the lives of 20th century artists and thinkers. The role of artistic and creative endeavours is well-known within psychoanalytic circles in helping to heal in the face of personal loss, trauma, and mourning. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Esther Dreifuss-Kattan, a psychoanalyst, art therapist and artist - analyses the work of major modernist and contemporary artists and thinkers through a psychoanalytic lens. In coming to terms with their own mortality, figures like Albert Einstein, Louise Bourgeois, Paul Klee, Eva Hesse and others were able to access previously unknown reserves of creative energy in their late works, as well as a new healing experience of time outside of the continuous temporality of everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDreifuss-Kattan explores what we can learn about using the creative process to face and work through traumatic and painful experiences of loss. \u003ci\u003eArt and Mourning \u003c\/i\u003ewill inspire psychoanalysts and psychotherapists to understand the power of artistic expression in transforming loss and traumas into perseverance, survival and gain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt and Mourning offers a new perspective on trauma and will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, psychologists, clinical social workers and mental health workers, as well as artists and art historians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Esther Dreifuss-Kattan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138886947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138886940\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/14\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50d","brand":"Esther Dreifuss-Kattan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48622052737279,"sku":"9781138886940","price":63.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/art-and-mourning-esther-dreifuss-kattan-9781138886940","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}