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Creativity, spirituality, and mental health : exploring connections / Kelley Raab Mayo.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Ashgate new critical thinking in religion, theology, and biblical studiesPublication details: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (177 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780754696353
  • 0754696359
  • 0754664589
  • 9780754664581
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Creativity, spirituality, and mental health.DDC classification:
  • 200.1/9 22
LOC classification:
  • BL53 .R215 2009eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction -- Marion Milner on mysticism and creativity -- Spirituality and creativity : theory and practice -- Hope and the religious imagination -- Issues of mood and anxiety -- Eating disorders -- Conclusion.
Summary: This book emphasizes the integral connections between imagination, creativity, and spirituality and their role in healing. Part One highlights the work of a neglected yet important psychoanalyst, Marion Milner - a painter and undeclared mystic - expanding her work on creativity, mysticism, and mental health. Part Two explores imagination and creativity as expressed in fostering hope and in spiritually-oriented therapies, particularly for mood, anxiety, and eating disorders - offering practical application of studies in imagination and the arts. Raab Mayo concludes that both creativity and the.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)298551

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-163) and index.

Introduction -- Marion Milner on mysticism and creativity -- Spirituality and creativity : theory and practice -- Hope and the religious imagination -- Issues of mood and anxiety -- Eating disorders -- Conclusion.

This book emphasizes the integral connections between imagination, creativity, and spirituality and their role in healing. Part One highlights the work of a neglected yet important psychoanalyst, Marion Milner - a painter and undeclared mystic - expanding her work on creativity, mysticism, and mental health. Part Two explores imagination and creativity as expressed in fostering hope and in spiritually-oriented therapies, particularly for mood, anxiety, and eating disorders - offering practical application of studies in imagination and the arts. Raab Mayo concludes that both creativity and the.

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