Artistic Applications through Critical Autoethnography
A Therapeutic Approach
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. December 2026
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-1-041-11285-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book promotes a 'therapeutic' aspect of autoethnographic inquiry, performance, presentation, and exhibition. The edited collection engages art, artistic expression, and artistic reflections on lived experience as performative artistic interventions and therapeutics in coping.
It is structured around a series of textual autoethnographic performances, position statements by expressive art therapists, evidenced pieces of art and essays. Chapter authors include practising art therapists, professors of expressive art therapies, students, and practitioners of autoethnography. Section 5 includes study questions, prompts, and probes for both students and researchers.
In addition to students and researchers interested in qualitative research methodologies, people interested in expressive art therapies, psychotherapy, psychology, and counselling will find this book compelling.
It is structured around a series of textual autoethnographic performances, position statements by expressive art therapists, evidenced pieces of art and essays. Chapter authors include practising art therapists, professors of expressive art therapies, students, and practitioners of autoethnography. Section 5 includes study questions, prompts, and probes for both students and researchers.
In addition to students and researchers interested in qualitative research methodologies, people interested in expressive art therapies, psychotherapy, psychology, and counselling will find this book compelling.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced
Illustrations
36 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 1 s/w Tabelle, 36 s/w Abbildungen
1 Tables, black and white; 36 Halftones, black and white; 36 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-041-11285-3 (9781041112853)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
approx. 12/2026
1st Edition
Routledge
€63.50
Not yet published
Person
Bryant Keith Alexander is Professor and Dean of College of Communication and Fine Arts at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.
Content
Table of Contents
Introduction Bryant Keith Alexander
Section I: "Performative Applications through Critical Autoethnography"
(Section Frame) Bryant Keith Alexander
1. "Breath, Breathe, Breathing With: Critical Autoethnography as
Coordinated Public Response (CPR)" Bryant Keith Alexander
2. "Shadows Behind the Mattering" Donna F. Henson
3. "Our bodies remember: On breathing, boxing, and overcoming childhood sexual abuse" Elisabeth Hanscombe
4. "Dancing with the Trouble Towards Intra-active Imagination and 'Also'Ethnography" Deborah Green
5. "Space within the Body, Body within Space" Zoe Bauer
6. "Breathing History" Cymbeline Buhler King
7. "Speaking of We: Poetry as A/r/tographic Inquiry" Angie Hostetler
Section II. "Invoking the Art of the Personal: Perspective of/on Autoethnogrpahy Through Expressive Art Practices"
(Section Frame) Bryant Keith Alexander
8. "Weaving Hybridity: Flow, Diasporic Return and the Cultural In-Between" Joyce Yip Green
9. "Performed Auto-Ethnography and Drama Therapy: Belonging and Not Belonging" Myriam (Mimi) Savage
Jessica Bleuer
10. "'I screamed through my art': An art therapist's autoethnographic exploration
of protest (art)," Kristyn Stickley
11. "BE(COM)ING Integrating art, therapy, and life" Girija Kaimal
12. AATA panel
STORYTELLING FORMAT - HISTORY OF AHI Ping Ho
Section III: "Applications through Art Therapists (in Training) Artistic Exhibition
(Section Frame) Bryant Keith Alexander
13. "Sacred Webs: Exploring the Connection between Nature, Art and Self"
Josie Bennett
14. "Birth and Death and Those of Us Left in Between: Using Art to Release Inner Pain"
Jenna Rose Newman
15. "Landscape" Jacqueline Tardie
16. "Love is Never Gone to Waste: Heartbreak Externalized Through Art Installation
Renee O'Connor
17. "Speaking in Visuals: Healing, Connection, and Sanctuary Through Artistic Dialogue"
Kelly Sheridan
18. "Blessed is the Peach", "Comfort Blanket," and "My Sweet Strawberry" Jane F. Tse
Section IV: "Critical and Reflective Essays on Autoethnography in/as Therapy and Recuperation"
(Section Frame) Bryant Keith Alexander
19. "Falling in love with writing: How autoethnography can foster reparative, creative and collaborative relationships"
Stacy Holman Jones & Daniel X. Harris
20. "Transform, transform, and transform again: Some therapeutic and recuperative possibilities through multimedia autoethnography" David Carless
21. "Wayfinding the Va: Healing Through Samoan Indigenous Autoethnography and the Sacred Art of Aiga Fetaui Iosefo
22. "Aesthetic Inquiry into Movement: Attending to Consequences of Physical Immersion in the Natural World and competitive sport" Kitrina Douglas
Section V: "Explorations with/out Conclusions: Helpful Engagements"
(Section Frame) Bryant Keith Alexander
23. Explorations and Speculations on Autoethnographic Fieldwork. Bryant Keith Alexander
24. Study Questions, Prompts, and Probes for Reflection Bryant Keith Alexander
Introduction Bryant Keith Alexander
Section I: "Performative Applications through Critical Autoethnography"
(Section Frame) Bryant Keith Alexander
1. "Breath, Breathe, Breathing With: Critical Autoethnography as
Coordinated Public Response (CPR)" Bryant Keith Alexander
2. "Shadows Behind the Mattering" Donna F. Henson
3. "Our bodies remember: On breathing, boxing, and overcoming childhood sexual abuse" Elisabeth Hanscombe
4. "Dancing with the Trouble Towards Intra-active Imagination and 'Also'Ethnography" Deborah Green
5. "Space within the Body, Body within Space" Zoe Bauer
6. "Breathing History" Cymbeline Buhler King
7. "Speaking of We: Poetry as A/r/tographic Inquiry" Angie Hostetler
Section II. "Invoking the Art of the Personal: Perspective of/on Autoethnogrpahy Through Expressive Art Practices"
(Section Frame) Bryant Keith Alexander
8. "Weaving Hybridity: Flow, Diasporic Return and the Cultural In-Between" Joyce Yip Green
9. "Performed Auto-Ethnography and Drama Therapy: Belonging and Not Belonging" Myriam (Mimi) Savage
Jessica Bleuer
10. "'I screamed through my art': An art therapist's autoethnographic exploration
of protest (art)," Kristyn Stickley
11. "BE(COM)ING Integrating art, therapy, and life" Girija Kaimal
12. AATA panel
STORYTELLING FORMAT - HISTORY OF AHI Ping Ho
Section III: "Applications through Art Therapists (in Training) Artistic Exhibition
(Section Frame) Bryant Keith Alexander
13. "Sacred Webs: Exploring the Connection between Nature, Art and Self"
Josie Bennett
14. "Birth and Death and Those of Us Left in Between: Using Art to Release Inner Pain"
Jenna Rose Newman
15. "Landscape" Jacqueline Tardie
16. "Love is Never Gone to Waste: Heartbreak Externalized Through Art Installation
Renee O'Connor
17. "Speaking in Visuals: Healing, Connection, and Sanctuary Through Artistic Dialogue"
Kelly Sheridan
18. "Blessed is the Peach", "Comfort Blanket," and "My Sweet Strawberry" Jane F. Tse
Section IV: "Critical and Reflective Essays on Autoethnography in/as Therapy and Recuperation"
(Section Frame) Bryant Keith Alexander
19. "Falling in love with writing: How autoethnography can foster reparative, creative and collaborative relationships"
Stacy Holman Jones & Daniel X. Harris
20. "Transform, transform, and transform again: Some therapeutic and recuperative possibilities through multimedia autoethnography" David Carless
21. "Wayfinding the Va: Healing Through Samoan Indigenous Autoethnography and the Sacred Art of Aiga Fetaui Iosefo
22. "Aesthetic Inquiry into Movement: Attending to Consequences of Physical Immersion in the Natural World and competitive sport" Kitrina Douglas
Section V: "Explorations with/out Conclusions: Helpful Engagements"
(Section Frame) Bryant Keith Alexander
23. Explorations and Speculations on Autoethnographic Fieldwork. Bryant Keith Alexander
24. Study Questions, Prompts, and Probes for Reflection Bryant Keith Alexander