Phototherapy in Mental Health

Edited by David A. Krauss, Cuyahoga Valley Community Mental Health Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and jerry L. Fryrear, University of Houston at Clear Lake City, Houston, Texas. (With 13 Contributors) CONTENTS: Phototherapy Introduction and Overview; Phototherapy: Looking into the History of Photography; Reality, Photography and Psychotherapy; The Visual Metaphor: Some Underlying Assumptions of Phototherapy; Photographic Self-Confrontation as Therapy; The Psychological Niche: The Auto-Photographic Study of Self-Environment Interaction; The Family Album as Icon: Photographs in Family Psychotherapy; The Photograph as a Catalyst in Psychotherapy; Instant Phototherapy with Children and Adolescents; Using Photographs in Therapy with People Who are 'Different'; Phototherapy Intervention: Developing a Comprehensive System; A Training Model for the Use of Still Photography in Therapy; Summary. Appendix.