Professionals from the fields of clinical psychology, counseling psychology, psychiatry, social work, and art therapy combine their experise in this monograph examining the therapeutic uses of photography in mental health. These contributors, all leaders in the field of phototherapy and many professional photographers themselves, discuss current concepts of phototherapy and explain such techniques as photographic self-confrontation, the auto-photographic study of self-environment interaction, instant phototherapy with children and adolescents, using photographs in therapy with people who are "different", and using photographs in family psychotherapy. Numerous photographs from actual therapy sessions accompany the text. --- from the publisher |
