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Ellen Handler Spitz
(Writer)
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Art and Psyche: A Study in Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics (1985)
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Image and Insight: Essays in Psychoanalysis and the Arts. Psychoanalysis
and Culture (1991), Arnold M. Cooper and Steven Marcus, eds.
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Museums of the Mind: Magritte`s Labyrinth and Other Essays in the Arts (1994)
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Inside Picture Books (1999)
Why do images from beloved childhood picture books linger in our
minds? How do picture books shape our lives early on and even into
adulthood? In this book Ellen Handler Spitz explores the profound impact
of reading to children, on the reader as well as the listener. She
discusses well-known picture books and how they transmit psychological
wisdom, convey moral lessons, shape tastes, and build a special bond
between the child and the adult reader." This is a book for each and every
adult (professionals and parents) who read to children providing a
mutually enriching experience for child and adult. Ellen Handler Spitz has
transmitted glowingly and in a wonderfully readable manner her deep and
broad understanding of how the adult reading to and looking with younger
and older children at books written for and artistically created for
children and their readers can be a powerful positive force in the lives
of children and their readers (parents).
In writing this original, scholarly, highly readable book
for children's readers, Ellen Handler Spitz has also enlarged our
understanding of how children's capacities for pretending, playing and
imagining is nurtured and enhanced in the context of a personal
relationship with the reader. She demonstrates this with a literary,
psychological analysis of picture story book classics that are suitable
for readers and children of all ages
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The Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood (2006)
In this original, richly illuminating study of the aesthetic development
of children in their primary learning years, Ellen Handler Spitz returns
us to the vibrant experience of childhood to explain how the imagination
emerges and develops. She looks at how children feel, sense, and relate to
what is around them, and she examines the unlimited imaginative dimensions
of their everyday experiences.
Spitz makes clear that in a young child’s mind there are no distinctions
between art and nature, between reality and make-believe: every
encounter—looking at a blade of grass, watching Bambi, decorating a
bedroom—is experienced in both a child’s private world and a domain of
shared adventure. By exploring the sensory, perceptual, and imaginative
lives of children, Spitz shows how this aesthetic growth intersects with
emotional development and how, by carefully observing what holds their
attention, we can not only promote children’s growth but also learn from
them, rediscovering our own world through their wide-open eyes.
This remarkable book will be required reading for parents, child-care
professionals, and educators—for anyone interested in the seeds of the
young imagination and the life of the young mind.
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