Art : Art Therapy

Drawing on Difference reveals how art therapy can support and validate the emotional and mental health needs of people with learning difficulties. Case studies present work with adults and children with differing degrees of difficulty. more...

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Drawing on anthroplogy, religion, literature and psychoanalysis Levans discusses the images which eating disorder patients create in art therapy and the implications for treatment. more...

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Dr. Rappaport's professional, accessible and enjoyable detailed approach...includes a user-friendly introduction to Gendlin's Focusing Method as well as a bridge to using Focusing with art therapy... Readers will find it both refreshing and practical and a much-used addition to their libraries.". -Dr. Doris Arrington, ATR-BC, Licensed Psychologist, Notre Dame de Namur University, Professor Emeritus. "Laury Rappaport is an articulate teacher and committed artist, who as a psychotherapist can look back on a long professional career, mastering Focusing and Expressive Arts Therapy alike. Based on this expertise, she eloquently presents a rich text written from a truly phenomenological perspective that guides like a red thread through this practical book. As a result it speaks to therapists of diverse traditions. What a helpful contribution for a wide range of practitioners interested in the Arts or Focusing.". -Paolo J. Knill, co-author of Principle and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy and Minstels of Soul: Intermodal Expressive Therapy. "In a time the fields of neuroscience and somatic therapy increasingly inform therapeutic intervention, Laury Rappaport has written a book that is both timely and passionate in its message... Every therapist who uses creative methods in their work will benefit from the wisdom found throughout this volume.". - Cathy A. Malchiodi, PhD, ATR-BC, LPCC, National Institute for Trauma and Loss, Lesley University, MA, USA. "... A major contribution to art therapy literature and practice... This intellectually provocative, yet thoroughly practical text, establishes Rappaport as an emergent leader in the art therapy world and author of a book that every student and art therapist must read in order to appreciate the depth and breadth of our discipline.". - Shaun McNiff, author of The Arts in Psychotherapy, Art as Medicine, Art Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul, and Art-Based Research. "The reade more...

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'Reading the text has been illuminating, for McNeilly has shed new light on the depths of the group analytic enterprise... I warmly commend this book to art therapists and group analysts alike. This is a rich, readable text which will stimulate thought and enable us to see more clearly the simple in the complex and the complex in the simple.'. - From the Foreword by Malcolm Pines. Group Analytic Art Therapy , written by an internationally renowned psychotherapist, provides readers with a practical and theoretical framework for using group art therapy in a range of settings. Based on over 20 years' experience of conducting group art therapy, this book is packed with suggestions for group art therapy practice and many explanatory diagrams. The author also explores the dynamics and psychological effects of diverse group situations, based on examples from his own clinical practice, and offers an illuminating insight in to his own theories and practical applications of group art therapy in the context of the developments in the field. Group Analytic Art Therapy is both a comprehensive reference and an inspiring text for practising and trainee art therapists, psychotherapists and group therapists. more...

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Describing training, practice and theory, this is a lively and thorough introduction to the art therapy profession which will be invaluable to people thinking of becoming therapists and to all those who need to know about the profession. more...

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