Art in Action

Expressive Arts Therapy and Social Change

Ellen G. Levine and Stephen K. Levine
Foreword by Michelle LeBaron

Paperback: £25.99 / $42.95

2011, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 240pp
ISBN: 978-1-84905-820-9, BIC 2: MQTC MMJT

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'Reading the collected essays found in this book is like being given a window into not only the diversity of what expressive arts therapy and its uses in the public sphere are, but beyond that, what expressive arts looks like and feels like from the perspective of those expressive art practitioners who utilize the tools of the arts within a framework of social healing and change... This book is an opportunity to see clearly the connection between expressive arts and social change: the natural phenomenon that occurs when you allow those you work with to be held in a space where they can express their most fundamental experiences.'

- Psychology & Arts Newsletter

'Calling all practitioners, therapists, educators and community members! The trumpets have sounded; calling up all available and able expressive and creative arts therapists for the charge of social action. Art in Action: Expressive Arts Therapy and Social Change is not the first book to champion social issues; however, its fourteen chapters may be the broadest and yet most focused work addressing the use of art for social and political change... The most powerful contribution of Art in Action is the work itself, the making of change, and the chapters that demonstrate and address the hardships and societal issues where arts-based practitioners have created change... These published testaments to community change through art are worthy of celebration and congratulations.'

- The Arts in Psychotherapy

'Art in Action is a well written book providing both theoretical and practical considerations and an abundance of rich and detailed accounts of expressive art projects within a wide range of communities. It was both interesting and inspiring. This book is highly recommended to any professionals working in a mental health capacity and those working with communitites in order to affect social change.'

- British Association of Play Therapists.

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Author information

• Ellen G. Levine
• Stephen K. Levine

Subject areas

• Arts Therapies

Keywords

• adults,
• art therapy,
• bereavement,
• counselling,
• creative therapies,
• creative writing as therapy,
• death,
• depression,
• domestic abuse,
• emotions,
• expressive therapies,
• families,
• grief,
• group psychotherapy,
• interdisciplinary arts therapies,
• mental health,
• occupational therapy,
• poetry,
• psychiatry,
• psychoanalysis,
• psychodrama,
• psychosis,
• psychotherapy,
• storymaking,
• therapeutic communities,
• trauma

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