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Fine Arts as Therapy: Plato's Teaching Organized and Discussed

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By Constantine Cavarnos
Fine Arts as Therapy: Plato's Teaching Organized and Discussed
Publication Data: Belmont, MA: Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 1998
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 96
Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.6 cm × 14.0 cm × 0.7 cm
Additional Information: black-and-white illustrations
ISBN: 1‒884729‒33‒9

   
By Constantine Cavarnos

“Dr. Cavarnos traces the historical origins in Plato's teachings and gives both the health specialist and the general reader the Western point of view that human expression which is organized to produce a response of aesthetic pleasure can simultaneously contribute to healing. Consequently the use of this therapeutic modality is ultimately the responsibility of the patient, either through performance participation or through witness. This point of view stands in stark contrast to the 20th century practice of dependency upon medicines or groups.”
—“Foreword”

CONTENTS

   FOREWORD
   PREFACE
1 INTRODUCTORY
2 HEALTH AND DISEASED ANALYZED
3 EDUCATION AND THE FINE ARTS
4 TRUE ART AND PSEUDO ART
5 ASSIMILATION AND PURIFICATION IN THERAPY
6 THE ARTS AS THERAPY
   (a) Philosophy; (b) Literature; (c) Comedy; (d) Rhetoric; (e) Music; (f) The dance; (g) Other arts
7 CONCLUDING REMARKS
   A GREEK SUMMARY BY DR. M. DRAGONA-MONACHOU
   DIALOGUES OF PLATO REFERRED TO
   INDEX OF PROPER NAMES
   INDEX OF SUBJECTS

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