Art therapy is in a transitional phase where new paradigms of thinking, research methods, and ways of knowing are emerging. Emerging Perspectives in Art Therapy explores the knowledge base of art therapy by examining old assumptions and developing new knowledge. Dr. Carolan and …
"Emerging Perspectives in Art Therapy aims to document newly emerging trends in the field of art therapy and to offer a vision of the future practices. This exciting new volume contains a diverse selection of chapters written to examine the current transitional phase of the prof…
"This text weaves clinical applications of object relations-based art therapy with the Kestenberg Art Profile to depict art from a developmental perspective with the intent of applying this knowledge to support best art therapy practice. Through examples of developmental art the…
Responding to the increased interest in the integration of expressive arts and ecotherapy, this book presents a nature based approach to expressive arts work. It provides an overview of the two fields, emphasizing how they can enrich and learn from each other, and highlights att…
"Integrating the Expressive Arts and Ecotherapy. Sally Atkins and Melia Snyder. Forewords by Corrine Glesne and Per Espen Stoknes. This book integrates the fields of expressive arts and ecotherapy to present a nature based approach to expressive arts work. It highlights attitude…
Cancer and Creativity is a dialogue between accounts by cancer patients and survivors and a more clinical consideration and theoretical discussion from a psychoanalytic point of view of using creativity in coping with serious illness. The contributions featured demonstrate the p…
You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a group art project. Your secret can be a regret, fear, betrayal, desire, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything -- as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before. Be brief. Be legible. B…
A collection of anonymous submissions from all over the country revealing one secret that has never been revealed.
Frank Warren had an idea for a community art project: he began handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places--asking people to write down a secret they had never told anyone and mail it to him, anonymously. The response was overwhelming. The secrets were b…
Frank Warren had an idea for a community art project: he began handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places--asking people to write down a secret they had never told anyone and mail it to him, anonymously. The response was overwhelming. The secrets were b…
'The Healing Art of Clay Therapy' is a handbook with step-by-step guidelines for working with clay in a therapeutic context. This book is an invaluable tool for therapists in a range of professions but particularly counsellors, art therapists, psychotherapists, health therapists…