PhotoTherapy Techniques: Exploring the Secrets of Personal Snapshots and Family Albums

"PhotoTherapy Techniques: Exploring the Secrets of Personal Snapshots and Family Albums" is the most comprehensive introduction to the field of PhotoTherapy available. Emphasizing the "what", "why", and "how" of these practical techniques, this book has long been considered an excellent substitute for a training workshop!

Written by Canadian psychologist, art therapist, consultant, trainer, and PhotoTherapy pioneer Judy Weiser, this book (now in second edition) explains and demonstrates each of the major techniques involved, and provides theoretical rationale from both psychology and art therapy contexts. It also includes many photo-illustrated client examples, case transcripts, and practical experiential "starter" exercises so that readers can immediately begin using these techniques in their own practice.

This book is about photography as "personally-symbolic communication", rather than "art" -- exploring what a photograph is about emotionally, in addition to what shows on its surface visually. Thus these techniques require no previous experience with cameras or photographic art -- and they can therefore be used successfully by therapists of all theoretical orientations, work settings, or client specializations.

Often used as a text for university courses as well as for "Continuing Education" licensing credits for numerous mental health professions, this book is a "must" for not only therapists and counselors, but also anyone interested in coaching, personal development, art therapy, social change, diversity training, conflict resolution, special education, community development, visual literacy, visual anthropology/sociology, visual-based research, and even scrapbooking!

Though long-considered a "classic" for teaching how to use photos in people-helping work, this book is still even more relevant in this "digital age" of mobile phone pictures and online sharing (because it is about the "heart part" of these images rather than their "art part!"!) -- and thus not at all dependent upon which kind of technology created them!

*For more information, see her Website "PhotoTherapy & Therapeutic Photography Techniques", at: www.phototherapy-centre.com

Author: Judy Weiser
Publisher: Phototherapy Centre Press
Published: 08/03/1999
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.57lbs
Size: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780968561904

About the Author
Weiser, Judy: - "Judy Weiser is a psychologist, art therapist, author, international lecturer, trainer, consultant, and adjunct University instructor - and early pioneer of PhotoTherapy and other related photo-based helping techniques. Founder and Director of the PhotoTherapy Centre in Vancouver, Canada (1982), she is considered the world authority on how people's interactions with personal photographs can be used to help them improve wellbeing and make positive changes in their lives! Author of the classic text PhotoTherapy Techniques: Exploring the Secrets of Personal Snapshots and Family Albums (now in 3rd printing, with translations published in Italian, Korean, and Russian -- and soon Spanish) -- as well as dozens of professional Journal articles and book chapters on these subjects, some of which have been translated into Japanese, Italian, Korean, and Russian). She also created and maintains the primary informational resource and networking website for the field (PhotoTherapy & Therapeutic Photography Techniques) as well as the related Facebook Group PhotoTherapy, Therapeutic Photography, Photo Art Therapy, and VideoTherapy, which now has over 8,000 members.Judy has given over three hundred Educational Workshops, Advanced Training Intensives, and Invited Lecture Presentations about these Techniques in over 50 cities world-wide during the past 40 years (including Italy, Russia, Netherlands, Mexico, Korea, Finland, Sweden, Spain, Latvia, Poland, England, Scotland, USA, and Canada). She has also accepted numerous invitations to give Keynote or Plenary Presentations at International Professional Association Conferences in Poland, Italy, Mexico, Russia, United States, and Canada.Former Editor of the journal Phototherapy, she is also on the Editorial Boards for the Italian Journal PsicoArt: Rivista on line di arte e psicologia and the Journal of the Canadian Art Therapy Association ¬- and serves as Consultant for the Center for Visual Therapies (U.S.), the Institute for Psychology and Photography (Mexico), PSYFoto (Russia), VideoReport & LaDamaSognatrice Produzioni Audiovisive (Italy), and The ONE Project (Canada). Having spent over 35 years using PhotoTherapy Techniques in her own private practices as a psychotherapist helping socially/culturally/racially marginalized, disenfranchised, and otherwise-excluded populations, Judy now consults, lectures, and teaches internationally by invitation, as well as offering various-length Educational and Training Workshops about how to use PhotoTherapy (and related) Techniques to help people make desired changes. And she will soon be offering a comprehensive package of Online Courses about both PhotoTherapy and Therapeutic Photography techniques, as well as related topics.- Judy Weiser can be contacted at: jweiser@phototherapy-centre.com or call/text: 604-202-3431 Additional Biographical information -- and a list of her numerous Professional Publications (available for free download) -- can be found at: http: //phototherapy-centre.com/about-judy-weiser/"