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A Multi-Modal Approach to Creative Art Therapy

Arthur Robbins

Paperback: £25.00 / $49.95

1994, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 386pp
ISBN: 978-1-85302-262-3, BIC 2: ABA MQTC

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1. Preface. 2. Integrating the personal and the theoretical splits in the struggle towards an identity as an art therapist. 3. Becoming an art therapist. 4. Creativity development. 5. The use of imagery. 6. A creative arts approach to art therapy. 7. The play of psychotherapeutic artistry and psychoaesthetics. 8. Resistance in art therapy: A multi-modal approach. 9. Art therapist and psychic healer: Description of a joint workshop. 10. Clinical considerations. 11. Art diagnosis. 12. Diagnostic indicators in the artwork of borderline and dissociative patients. 13. Developing therapeutic artistry: A joint countertransference supervisory seminar/sculpting workshop. 14. Countertransference and the art therapeutic process with borderline patients. 15. technique. 16. Materials. 17. Institutional issues. Case Studies. 18. Clinical applications. 19. Art therapy with a floating fortress, Linda Joan Brown. 20. Merger and separateness, Kristin Stonehouse. 21. Regressive reintegration, Anne Reilly. 22. Play, art and photography in a therapeutic nursery school, Ellen Nelson/Gee. 23. The phantom's mask: A search for meaning, Michele M. Neuhaus. 24. A case of chronic childhood abuse, Patricia Savage Williams. 25. The use of film, photography and art with ghetto adolescents, Marbara Maciag.

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