Portrait Therapy: Resolving Self-Identity Disruption in Clients with Life-Threatening and Chronic Illnesses

Contents

• Foreword. Acknowledgements.
• Part I . Focusing the Gaze.
• 1. Setting the Scene: Introducing Portraiture as a 'Third Hand' Intervention.
• 2. Priming the Canvas: A Phenomenological Approach to Depicting Subjectivity.
• 3. Selecting the Medium: Portraiture as a Therapeutic Tool.
• Part II . Collaborative Case-Studies.
• 4. Portrait Therapy as a Collaborative Intervention: Paint Me This Way!
• 5. Increasing the Patients' Creative Capacity to Adapt to Illness.
• 6. Mirroring and Attunement through Portraiture: Intersubjective and Symbolic Ways of Knowing, Being and Relating.
• 7. Making Special, Making Meaning: Increasing the Lived Experience of Homelike-Being-in-the-World and Ontological Security.
• Part III . Portrait Therapy Protocol and Evaluation Methods.
• 8. A Therapist's Manual: The Three Phases of Portrait Therapy.
• 9. Making Connections: Evaluating Portrait Therapy.
• 10. Afterword: Drawing Conclusions.
• Appendix
• 1. Images used in the Portrait Reference Album (PRA).
• 2. Semi-structured end of project interview (EPI) questions used to evaluate portrait therapy. References.