Voice and singing have accompanied human communities since ancient times as forms of communication, ritual, emotional expression, social bonding and spiritual practice. Across diverse cultural contexts, vocal music has been used not only to represent beliefs but also to create relationships between individuals, communities, the natural world, and dimensions of experience that may be described...
This study aims to discuss the possibility of becoming conscious of certain aspects of one's own existence through creative activity.The discussion involves Piagetian constructivism and Steiner's ideas about human development and is justified by the contribution of creative activity to the development of autonomy, according to Piaget, and to the development of an ethical individuality,...
The present study further explores the idea presented first in my book Dreams in Group Analysis (Koukis, 2004), i.e., that group-analytic psychotherapy can help patients suffering from psychosis to reconstruct their ability to dream, thereby easing their symptoms. It demonstrates the way in which patients with psychosis transform what Freud (1900) described as the archaic ontological nucleus of...