Healing through Art : Ritualized Space and Cree Identity

by Nadia Ferrara

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Format Paperback / Softback

Book Series McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies

ISBN-10 0228026342

ISBN-13 9780228026341

Publisher McGill-Queen's University Press

Imprint McGill-Queen's University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 16th, 2025

Print length 184 Pages

Product Classification: Anthropology Psychology

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In "Healing through Art" Nadia Ferrara shows how art therapy has been used as a successful form of healing among Crees. The result of her work as an art therapist in communities in northern Quebec, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the nature of her patients'' experiences. Ferrara examines how individual experience of trauma is perceived, defined, and narrated by Cree individuals and discusses the role that Cree culture and Cree definitions of self play in therapy.

Ferrara, who is accepted as a healer in Cree communities, shows how art therapy became a ritual for her patients, noting that Crees often associate art therapy and their experience in the bush and arguing that both constitute a place for them to re-affirm their notions of self. By including patient drawings and letting us hear Cree voices, "Healing through Art" gives us a sense of the reality of everyday Cree experience. This innovative book transcends disciplinary boundaries and makes a significant contribution to anthropology, Native Studies, and clinical psychology.

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