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Overview'Medicine and psychiatry both based on science require the art of caring using the principles of art in learning and teaching. Sitting with a patient making sense of their distress being empathetic in understanding both the symptoms and the person and alleviating suffering needs a human touch. For that doctors need the soul of an artist and must be aware of the value that arts have for society and the individual.' - from the Foreword by Dinesh Bhugra This comprehensive book explores how visual art cinema music poetry literature and drama can inform the teaching and practice of psychiatrists and mental health professionals. Edited and written by a team of expert practitioners teachers and researchers including both clinicians and users of mental health services this comprehensive book will provide valuable insights for undergraduate and postgraduate educators with teaching reponsibilities in psychiatry and mental health. Students of the medical humanities art music and drama therapists and educators in occupational therapy and psychology will also find this a valuable and insightful handbook. 'The authors of this wonderful handbook provide a convincing argument that the arts are good for what ails us. They have each used a preferred artistic medium to deepen personal reflection and to enhance their own creativity as physicians teachers and therapists. Their models are clear their suggestions practical but none of the approaches you'll find here is reductive or simplistic. Try some of the reflective exercises and teaching strategies. You will be sure to rediscover something you have always cherished about the art of healing.' - from the Foreword by Allan D Peterkin Full Product DetailsAuthor: Victoria TischlerPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: CRC Press Edition: 1st New edition Dimensions: Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 24.60cm Weight: 0.362kg ISBN: 9781846193736ISBN 10: 1846193737 Pages: 184 Publication Date: 31 July 2010 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews'With increasing technological advances, health-care workers and clinical workers may find themselves increasingly drawn to hard-core science at the expense of their resources in the humanities. This excellent and timely book aims to redress this imbalance. It is focused particularly on medicine and psychiatry, but will speak to a far wider range of professionals, such as arts and occupational therapists. The book fills a widening gap, and anyone reading it will be enriched.' Journal of the Society of Medical Writers 'Tischler's handbook goes into more detail on a number of other approaches to using the arts to teach this topic. For example, in the chapter on drama and theatre arts, Tischler challenges the instructor to go beyond the use of role play and make use of drama and theatre to teach a concept; in other words, to teach about psychopathology. I am intrigued by the idea of creating a play over a number of class sessions where each student plays the role of someone with a psychiatric disorder. The students write and direct the project and the final product is filmed for further classroom discussion and reflection. I cannot think of a better way to teach a concept about mental health other than requiring the student to live, act and become the part, if only for a brief moment. In sum, I highly recommend this resource for all instructors of medicine, nursing and mental health to bring the topic of psychopathology alive for both our students and the clients they will be serving in the future.' Renee van der Vennet, Creative Arts Therapy Department, Nazareth College, US in Arts & Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice 'The book is visually pleasant and finely edited. As described above, it is a comprehensive study with diverse forms of Art, which helps teachers, physicians and all interested in the subject to learn more about their favourite - or unexpected - way of expression. In a lecture by Professor Dinesh Bhugra, author of one the forewords of this book, he said that psychiatry could be seen as the more specifically human medical specialty, since it deals with the very thing that makes us different from other animals: the mind. The production of symbolic content, which sometimes (some would say very special times) takes the form of Art, is the way that this particular trait becomes perceivable. Art, therefore, might be the path linking our scientific appreciations and the immeasurable portion of what goes on in people's minds (including our own). This book is a fine guide for those willing to walk it.' Julio Xerfan, Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, International Journal of Social Psychiatry Author InformationUniversity of Nottingham, Division of Psychiatry- Behavioural Sciences, Queen's Medical centre, Nottingham Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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