Psychology and the Arts: Perceptions and Perspectives
Edited by Carmel Cefai & Louis Lagana`
Published by Malta University Publishing
Date: Friday 28 October
Time: 18:00-20:00
Venue: Palazzo Falson, Mdina
The University of Malta’s Department of Psychology, Faculty for Social Wellbeing, is launching the book Psychology and the Arts: Perceptions and Perspectives. The panel consists of Dr Jean-Paul Baldacchino, anthropologist and Head of the Department of Anthropology, Prof. Saviour Catania, associate professor in media and communications at the Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences, Dr Marta Sant, counselling psychologist at the Department of Psychology, and Rev. John Vella, psychotherapist and Head of the Counselling Services. Dr Andrew Azzopardi, Dean Faculty for the Social Wellbeing, will chair the panel.
The book will be available for sale during the launch. The panel discussion will be followed by a reception.
Psychology and the Arts seeks to widen and develop the concepts employed by scholars and researchers coming from various fields in the areas of literature, art, film and psychoanalytic theories. This book seeks to provide new and creative explorations of various literary and artistic works from psychoanalytic and post-psychoanalytic perspectives by various authors from around the world. The authors discuss issues ranging from dreams, desire, and creativity to works of literature such as Shakespeare and Hardy, to spaces, archetypes and symbols such as the Mother Goddess, and to the visual arts such as street art, photography, films and painting.
This book should be of particular interest to students of Psychology and of the Arts, to psychologists, psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, artists, academics and scholars of literature, cinema and art, and others interested in delving deep into the literary and artistic world.
Edited by Prof. Carmel Cefai and Dr Louis Lagana` with contributions by more than twenty authors from Europe, USA and other countries.
For further information please contact Ms Sarah Mifsud.
