Foundations of Expressive Arts Therapy
Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives
Published on 1. September 1998
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-1-85302-464-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides an arts-based approach to theories and practices of expressive arts therapy. The contributors emphasize the importance of the imagination and aesthetic experience, arguing that these are central to psychological well-being, and challenging views which emphasise the cognitive and emotional dimensions of mental health development.
Reviews / Votes
This book does succeed in laying common ground beneath so many individual approaches to therapy, with its emphasis upon the imagination, spontaneous creative expression and intermodal techniques. It will, I suspect, become a standard textbook for practitioners, and it is without doubt a treasure trove for researchers, but I think it also has much to offer the general reader, for all of these issues are fundamentally human ones and could have meaning to anyone. -- Research in Drama EducationMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85302-464-1 (9781853024641)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Stephen K. Levine is Professor Emeritus of Social Science at York University in Toronto, Canada, Vice-Provost and Dean of the Doctoral Program in Expressive Arts Therapy: Education, Consulting and Social Change at the European Graduate School in Switzerland, and Co-Director of ISIS Canada.
Content
Part 1 Philosophical and theoretical perspectives: Poiesis and postmodernism - the search for a foundation in expressive arts therapy, Stephen K. Levine; Soul-nourishment or the metabolism of psyche - a broad concept of diet and medicine, Paolo J. Knill; Ethics and aesthetics - the necessity of form, Majken Jacoby; Artistic inquiry - research in expressive arts therapy, Shaun McNiff. Part 2 Clinical perspectives: Voicework as therapy - the artistic use of singing and vocal sound to heal mind and body, Paul Newham; The creative connection - a holistic expressive arts process, Natalie Rogers; Living artfully - movement as an integrative process, Daria Halprin; Layer upon layer - a therapeutic experience in the art studio, Annette Brederode; Music as mother - the mothering function of music through expressive and receptive avenues, Margareta Warja; Between imagination and belief poetry as therapeutic intervention, Margo Fuchs; Poetry in the oral tradition - serious play with words, Elizabeth McKim; Theatre of the Holocaust, Yacov Naor; In exile from the body, Melinda Asher-Meyer; On the play-ground - child psychotherapy and expressive arts therapy, Ellen G. Levine.