Full Description
This fully updated second edition of "Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age" invites readers to consider how cutting-edge approaches in phototherapy and therapeutic photography could be integrated into their own practice.
Contributing authors provide guidance on different techniques for using photography in work with clients, including theory and context behind when each approach should be used. Readers will benefit from updates to the current edition, including:
• Updates to the preface and introduction, exploring the importance of self-representation and expression against the backdrop of the ever-growing popularity of mobile phones and social media.
• A new chapter on the integration of AI into phototherapy and therapeutic photography, including future-oriented practice and considering the use of AI for facial emotional recognition and creation of augmented realities.
• A new chapter on PhotoVoice's methodologies and approaches to community engagement in delivering ethical photography projects for social change.
• A new chapter on how phototherapy can provide safety, security and structure for exploration of self-identity, relationships and narratives.
• An updated conclusion, drawing together developments in phototherapy and therapeutic photography, and renewing ideas about how practitioners look to the future of photography in therapeutic practice.
This book will be of vital importance to counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists and photographers looking to learn more about the intersection of photography and therapeutic practice. It will also be essential reading for art therapists using photography within their work with clients.
Contents
Preface to Second Edition
Acknowledgments (from 1st Edition)
Prologue
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1 - Introducing phototherapy and therapeutic photography in a digital age, Del Loewenthal
Chapter 2 - A photograph as a therapeutic experience - Ulla Halkola
Chapter 3 - Jo Spence's camera therapy, Personal therapeutic photography as a response to adversity, Terry Dennett
Chapter 4 - Fotos, fones & fantasies, Mark Wheeler
Chapter 5 - A creative photographic approach: Interpretation and healing through creative practice, Mike Simmons
Part II The use of photographs in various practices
Chapter 6 - Inhabiting the image: Photography, therapy and re-enactment phototherapy, Rosy Martin
Chapter 7 - Talking pictures therapy: The therapeutic use of photographs in counselling and psychotherapy, Del Loewenthal
Chapter 8 - Structuring therapeutic photography techniques to guide exploration, Neil Gibson
Chapter 9 - PhotoVoice, Participatory Photography, and Photographic Storytelling, Tom Elkins
Chapter 10 - The self-portrait as self-therapy, Cristina Nuñez
Chapter 11 - Community phototherapy, Carmine Parrella, Del Loewenthal
Chapter 12 - The photographic genogram and family therapy, Rodolfo De Bernart
Chapter 13- 'The time we were not born': Experimental archaeology — working within and beyond the photographic archive with photography students, Julia Winckler
Chapter 14 - Photography and art therapy, Alexander Kopytin
Chapter 15 - Phototherapy, Therapeutic Photography and AI, Lucian Milasan
Part III Research and the future
Chapter 16 - Phototherapy and neuroscience: Marriage, cohabitation or divorce?, Hasse Karlsson
Chapter 17 - Research, new approaches and the future of phototherapy and therapeutic photography, Del Loewenthal
Epilogue: Hands up — surrender to subjectivity, Brigitte Anor
