Mirror Image and Therapy

With a Foreword by Hans-Georg Gadamer

Gisela Schmidt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

526 Seiten

2001
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
978-3-906766-95-9 (ISBN)

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This study presents a wide-ranging thesis on the basis of Gadamer's hermeneutic philosophy. It is unusually multidisciplinary in approach and content including the domains of philosophy, art history and analytic psychotherapy. Its central thesis that mirrors and mirroring in the Western tradition of painting might be analogical to the varieties of 'mirroring' in the conversations between therapist and patient is interpreted as Gadamerian 'fusion of horizons' with an increase in understanding of both the pictures with mirrors and an analogical mirroring in a patient's 'text' or tableau .
Chapters devoted to the analogical scheme of interpretation, hermeneutic psychotherapy as 'reflective participation', mirroring in psychotherapy, mirrors and mirroring and their ontological value, hermeneutics of art and its particular hermeneutic conversation, and finally to mirrors in paintings culminate in a presentation of eight 'double interpretations'. There the author takes the reader through clinical vignettes drawn from real published case-studies juxtaposed with paintings in which mirrors play an analogical role. The 'double interpretations' of various forms of Narcissistic Mirroring, Convex Mirroring, Anamorphic Mirroring, Medusan, Janusian and Athenean Mirroring are both empirically sound and strikingly original. The book is a creative example of object hermeneutics within the domain of Gadamerian philosophical hermeneutics.

The Author: Having studied literature and art history Gisela Schmidt worked for the German Cultural Institute in London and Dublin. She graduated in Psychology and was awarded a Ph.D. by Trinity College, Dublin. After further professional training in Germany she has been a practising psychotherapist for a number of years, while at the same time pursuing her interests in art history and philosophy.

Contents: 'Double interpretations' of mirroring processes in paintings containing mirrors and clinical vignettes of psychotherapeutic conversations with mirroring processes - Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics - Hermeneutic psychotherapy - Hermeneutics and art.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.10.2001
Verlagsort	Bern
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 220 mm
Gewicht	720 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
Schlagworte	Foreword • Gadamer • Georg • Hans • Hardcover, Softcover / Kunst/Bildende Kunst • HC/Kunst/Bildende Kunst • hermeneutics • Hermeneutik • Image • Mirror • MIRRORING • Narzissmus • Psychotherapie • Reflective participation • Schmidt • therapy • with
ISBN-10	3-906766-95-0 / 3906766950
ISBN-13	978-3-906766-95-9 / 9783906766959
Zustand	Neuware