Thesis Title: How Metaphoric Interpretations Effect An Experience Of Insight in Psychotherapy Patients
About
Michael Shaw is a Clinical Psychologist, an analyst of visual journalism, and a frequent lecturer and writer on how politicians and the media frame political imagery. Michael’s clinical training — which is woven into his commentary — involves the analysis of character and character styles. His research has dealt with the creative process, visual thinking, and how metaphors can create psychological insight.
In addition to his private practice, Shaw spent nine years as the consulting psychotherapist at The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), the architecture and design program and think-tank in Los Angeles. For five years before that, he served the same function at Otis College of Art and Design. Counting both experiences, he has spent thousands of hours collaborating with students and design professionals in their creative process, as well as participating in the formal and informal analysis and critique of visual images.
Michael founded BAGnewsNotes in June 2003. BagNewsNotes is the only site dedicated 100% to visual politics and the analysis of news images. The site also features original politically-oriented photojournalism from top-name photographers. Current contributors include Alan Chin, Nina Berman, and Mario Tama.
Launched in 2004, BAGnewsNotes is often referenced in university visual studies and communications programs, and is closely followed by the political and visual media, the political blogosphere, and also the photojournalism community. Distinguished visual theorists Robert Hariman (Chairman of the Communications program at Northwestern) and John Lucaites (professor of Communications at Indiana U.) are also contributors.
In 2006, BAGnewsNotes was a Webby Awards finalist for Best Political Blog (along with Huffington Post and Columbia Journalism Review). BNN was also credentialed by the DNC to cover the 2008 Democratic National Convention. "Michael has also been a front page contributor to the Huffington Post since September ‘05, writing a blog feature called “Reading The Pictures.”
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