ABSTRACT

The digital age has brought about a world-wide evolution of phototherapy and therapeutic photography. This book provides both a foundation in phototherapy and therapeutic photography and describes the most recent developments.

Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age is divided into three sections: In the first, an introduction and overviews from different perspectives; in the second, approaches and contexts, including phototherapy, re-enactment phototherapy, community phototherapy, self-portraiture, family photography. This is followed by a conclusion looking at the future of phototherapy and therapeutic photography in terms of theory, practice and research.

The book is for anyone interested in the therapeutic use of photographs. It will be of particular interest to psychological therapists and especially psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists and art therapists, as well as photographers and others wishing to explore further the use of photographs therapeutically within their existing practices.

chapter |1 pages

Prologue

‘The photograph' 1

part |63 pages

Part I Introduction

chapter |9 pages

Chapter 3 Jo Spence's camera therapy

Personal therapeutic photography as a response to adversity

chapter |13 pages

Chapter 5 A creative photographic approach

Interpretation and healing through creative practice

part |89 pages

Part II The use of photographs in various practices

chapter |13 pages

Chapter 6 Inhabiting the image

Photography, therapy and re-enactment phototherapy

chapter |13 pages

Chapter 7 Talking pictures therapy

The therapeutic use of photographs in counselling and psychotherapy

chapter |15 pages

Chapter 11 ‘The time we were not born'

Experimental archaeology — working within and beyond the photographic archive with photography students

part |23 pages

Part III Research and the future

chapter |7 pages

Chapter 13 Phototherapy and neuroscience

Marriage, cohabitation or divorce?

chapter |3 pages

Epilogue

Hands up — surrender to subjectivity