Art Memoir and Jung

<p>In this intimate study Juliet Miller maps the artworks that have influenced her throughout her life and examines how she has integrated them into her development as a psychotherapist.</p><p>Working from the premise that our initial reactions to art provide a crucial key to self-analysis Miller interrogates the significance of different artists including Bourgeois Vermeer Rousseau and Kahlo and analyses how personal circumstances recollections and emotions have affected responses to their work.<b> </b>Chapters incorporate clinical material from Miller’s practice linking into her own anxieties about sitting with and connecting with patients and touching on themes including creativity character identity and communication. </p><p>Through this exploration she questions many of the conventions of art and psychotherapy and suggests ways in which looking at art can be used as a psychological tool. <i>Art Memoir and Jung </i>offers a highly personal and innovative perspective on meaning in art and how it can be used to explore Jungian thought as based in the aesthetic and how the aesthetic can inform depth psychology. </p>