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The Healing Flow: Artistic Expression in Therapy

The Healing Flow: Artistic Expression in Therapy

Creative Arts and the Process of Healing: An Image/Word Approach Inquiry

Martina Schnetz
Forewords by V. Darroch-Lozowski and David C. Wright

Paperback: £22.99 / $36.95

2004, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 256pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-205-2, BIC 2: ABA MQTC

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Acknowledgments. Foreword, Vivian. Darroch-Lozowski. Foreword, David C. Wright. Part 1: Interpretative Quilting: A Qualitative Art-Based Approach to Inquiry. 1. Introduction to the Healing Flow: An Image Oriented Approach to Inquiry and Psychotherapy. 2. Interpretative Quilting as a Qualitative Approach to Inquiry. 3. The Nature of Truth in Interpretative Quilting. Part 2: An Interpretative Quilt: A Qualitative Study of the Healing Flow within a Clinical Setting. 4. The Role of Contextual Factors in Interpretative Quilting. 5. A Window: Entering the Art Therapy Room. 6. Sam's Journey with the Healing Flow. 7. Mary's Journey with the Healing Flow. 8. A View into the Activities in an Art Therapy Session. 9. Verbal Reflection Phase of the Healing Flow of Images and the Quality of the Dialogical Image/Word Process. 10. Transition Phase and Closing Ritual as a Container of the Healing Flow. 11. Interpretative Border: The Process of Art Toward Healing in Psychotherapy. 12. Final Stitching: Closure Ritual and the Transitional Function of the Dialogical Image/Word Process. 13.Modernity, Spirituality, and the Process of Art Toward Healing. References. Index.