ABSTRACT

Linda Berman explores the importance of photographs in our lives, highlighting the hidden messages behind the images. She describes different ways of using photographs in therapy and shows how by triggering memory and emotion and revealing family patterns they can be used to help the patient. Detailed case studies, with appropriate illustrations, show how photographs can be used with individuals, couples and groups, and demonstrate how useful photographs can be in many different therapeutic settings.

chapter Chapter 1|22 pages

Photographs in everyday life

chapter Chapter 2|28 pages

‘I am here, I am there’

Paradoxes, contradictions and ambiguities within the photograph

chapter Chapter 3|31 pages

Using photographs in therapy

Some general principles

chapter Chapter 4|22 pages

A clinical example

Jane

chapter Chapter 5|17 pages

A closer look at the family album

Searching for clues to the past

chapter Chapter 6|24 pages

The search continues

Exploring images of interaction

chapter Chapter 7|28 pages

Who can benefit?

chapter Chapter 8|29 pages

‘Can it really be me?’

Photographs and the self

chapter |1 pages

Conclusion