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The impact of political violence, war, civil war and acts of
terrorism on the individuals involved can be extensive. Art therapy
can provide an effective means of expressing the resulting
experiences of fear, loss, separation, instability and disruption.
Art Therapy and Political Violence brings together contributions
from all over the world and from diverse theoretical backgrounds.
With contributions from Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Israel and South
Africa, the book includes numerous clinical examples to vividly
illustrate the main issues affecting art therapy. The practical
issues involved are also discussed, including subjects such as the
importance of working with both the internal and external worlds of
the individual and sensitivity to cultural issues. Art therapists,
psychotherapists and other mental health professionals,
particularly those working in the context of political violence or
in countries of refuge, will find the experiences recounted in Art
Therapy and Political Violence thought-provoking and will welcome
the wealth of practical information provided.
The impact of political violence, war, civil war and acts of
terrorism on the individuals involved can be extensive. Art therapy
can provide an effective means of expressing the resulting
experiences of fear, loss, separation, instability and disruption.
Art Therapy and Political Violence brings together contributions
from all over the world and from diverse theoretical backgrounds.
With contributions from Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Israel and South
Africa, the book includes numerous clinical examples to vividly
illustrate the main issues affecting art therapy. The practical
issues involved are also discussed, including subjects such as the
importance of working with both the internal and external worlds of
the individual and sensitivity to cultural issues. Art therapists,
psychotherapists and other mental health professionals,
particularly those working in the context of political violence or
in countries of refuge, will find the experiences recounted in Art
Therapy and Political Violence thought-provoking and will welcome
the wealth of practical information provided.
The physical care of people with dementia is of vital importance,
but so too is their emotional, social, mental and spiritual
wellbeing. The creative arts are gaining increasing recognition not
only as a tool for delivering effective person-centred dementia
care, but also for attending to soul as well as body. Encouraging
those who care for people with dementia to develop their own
creative skills, this book provides a creative map of care with
easy-to-follow examples and detailed case studies. After explaining
why adopting a creative approach is central to effective dementia
care, the authors go on to discuss meditation, singing, movement
and storytelling, describing the therapeutic benefits of each and
giving practical examples of how they can be used with individuals
or groups. They also look at the importance of creative supervision
in promoting creativity and creating a safe space for honest
interpersonal connection: an essential foundation for effective
teamwork. This book will be an invaluable resource for anyone
involved in the care of a person with dementia, including
professional staff in residential and nursing homes, hospitals and
day centres, families and other non-professional carers.
The field of art therapy is discovering that artistic expression
can be a powerful means of personal transformation and emotional
and spiritual healing. In this book, Shaun McNiff, a leader in
expressive arts therapy for more than three decades, reflects on a
wide spectrum of activities aimed at reviving art's traditional
healing function. In chapters ranging from "Cultivating
Imagination" and "The Practice of Creativity in the Workplace" to
"Rock and Roll, Ecstatic Transformation, and Shamanism," he
illuminates some of the most progressive views in the rapidly
expanding field of art therapy: The "practice of imagination" as a
powerful force for transformation A challenge to literal-minded
psychological interpretations of artworks ("black colors indicate
depression") and the principle that even disturbing images have
inherent healing properties The role of the therapist in promoting
an environment conducive to free expression and therapeutic
energies The healing effects of group work, with people creating
alongside one another and interacting in the studio "Total
expression," combining arts such as movement, storytelling, and
drumming with painting and drawing
There are art teachers—and then there's Shaun McNiff. An accomplished painter himself, with a fascination for the creative process, he's been teaching art for something like forty years, both to people who identify themselves as artists, and to those who carry no such identity—most notably to the many clients and mental health patients with whom he's worked to use art making as a therapeutic method. Having observed and worked with such a broad spectrum of art makers has caused him to observe the creative process—in others as well as in himself—in depth over a long period. In this book, he will offer his observations about creativity, what it is and how it works, along with practical advice on how to jump-start the process in oneself. His history and experience give his observations on this topic a good deal of heft.
Poetry is increasingly used in therapy, and it already occupies a
central place in expressive arts therapies. This book is the first
to explicitly combine theory and practice from the field of
expressive arts with poetry and poetics. The book offers both a
guide and poetic encouragement for using poetry in expressive arts
work. Within this arts context, poetry is offered as a way to
create hope and confidence, providing clients with a platform for
healing, reconciliation, problem solving, and personal and
professional development. Each chapter uses examples of poetry to
illustrate the ideas of the chapter. With an outstanding
contribution to the field of expressive arts theory and practice,
this book is essential for people wanting to use an integrative
arts-based approach to help their clients build resilience and
foster sustainable, positive change in their lives.
Art therapy and all of the other creative arts therapies have
promoted themselves as ways of expressing what cannot be conveyed
in conventional language. Why is it that creative arts therapists
fail to apply this line of thinking to research? In this exciting
and innovative book, Shaun McNiff, one of the field's pioneering
educators and authors, breaks new ground in defining and inspiring
art-based research. He illustrates how practitioner-researchers can
become involved in art-based inquiries during their educational
studies and throughout their careers, and shows how new types of
research can be created that resonate with the artistic process.
Clearly and cogently expressed, the theoretical arguments are
illustrated by numerous case examples, and the final part of the
book provides a wealth of ideas and thought provoking questions for
research. This challenging book will prove invaluable to creative
art therapy educators, students, and clinicians who wish to
approach artistic inquiry as a way of conducting research. It will
also find a receptive audience within the larger research community
where there is a rising commitment to expanding the theory and
practice of research. Integrating artistic and scientific
procedures in many novel ways, this book offers fresh and
productive visions of what research can be.
Therapeutic deep play has the capacity for children to express deep
emotions, overcome seemingly insurmountable issues and resolve
serious problems. Working with children in this profound way,
therapists are able to not only eliminate symptoms, but to change
the very structure of how children live with themselves, their
defense and belief systems. The contributors to this book all work
deeply, allowing children to take risks in a safe environment, and
become fully absorbed in physical play. Chapters include play with
deep sandboxes, clay, water, and various objects, and look at a
range of pertinent case studies to demonstrate the therapeutic
techniques in practice, alongside the theoretical concepts in which
they are grounded. A new theoretical approach is established that
takes from psychoanalysis as well as neuroscience and behaviourism,
and offers a depth psychology approach in the treatment of
children. This will be a valuable resource for anyone working
therapeutically with children through play, including play
therapists, psychotherapists, psychologists, arts therapists,
counsellors, social workers and family therapists.
This book shows how the expressive arts therapies contain the
potential for renewal in both art and psychotherapy. The author
first describes the theoretical basis for his vision of art as
medicine, citing the archetypal psychology of James Hillman,
writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Friedrich Nietzsche, mythologies
such as Mircea Eliade, Henri Corbin and British scholar Jane
Harrison and others. He then discusses his methods, including
interpretation through performance and storytelling, collaborative
creation, and dialoguing with paintings, as opposed to talking
about paintings. Finally, he offers an illustrated examination of
drawings, paintings and dreams, demonstrating how interacting with
the products of the imagination can lead to growth and
transformation for the healthy as well as the sick. The author also
wrote "The Arts and Psychotherapy", "Educating the Creative Arts
Therapists", "Fundamentals of Art Therapy" and "Depth Psychology of
Art".
The new practice of art-based research uses art making as a primary
mode of enquiry rather than continuing to borrow research
methodologies from other disciplines to study artistic processes.
Drawing on contributions from arts therapies, education, history,
organizational studies, and philosophy, the essays critically
examine unique challenges that include the personal and sometimes
intimate nature of artistic enquiry and the complexities of the
partnership with social science which has dominated applied arts
research; how artistic discoveries are apt to emerge spontaneously,
even contrary to plans and what we think we know; how truth can be
examined through both fact and fiction as well as the interplay of
objective and subjective experience; and ways of generating
artistic evidence and communicating outcomes. Offering examples
from all of the arts this volume will be welcomed by researchers
and students in many fields.
This inspirational book expands the reader's view of what it means
to live in tune with the labyrinthine ways of the creative spirit,
which mysteriously works its magic when we relinquish ego control
and "trust the process".
Do you believe that life within an organization means death to the
creative process? That creativity is the exclusive province of
"artistic types"? Wrong! Shaun McNiff shows how we can all
cultivate the special kind of creative energy that is generated by
people working together in groups, whether in the workplace or
other cooperative communities--wherever individuals come together
to pursue a common goal through dialogue, interaction, and
teamwork. "Creating with Others" is designed to address group
creativity in both theory and practice. McNiff draws examples from
the creative arts as well as from organizational life and everyday
work situations. He shows how leaders can be facilitators of
creative teamwork, and how artists and other creative people can
collaborate fruitfully with others. The book includes exercises and
questions that can be used in courses, informal discussion groups,
and interactive e-groups. It will also help individual
readers--ranging from beginners to artists seeking inspiration--to
reflect upon their personal relationship with creativity. Readers
will find that they are never alone in the creative process.
Creativity is the basic interplay of life, and we establish a vital
link to its power through engagements with others.
Interest in the use of digital technology in art therapy has grown
significantly in recent years. This book provides an authoritative
overview of the applications of digital art therapy with different
client groups and considers the implications for practice.
Alongside Cathy Malchiodi, the contributors review the pros and
cons of introducing digital technology into art therapy, address
the potential ethical and professional issues that can arise and
give insight into the effect of digital technology on the brain.
They cover a wide range of approaches, from therapeutic filmmaking
to the use of tablet and smartphone technology in therapy. Detailed
case studies bring the practicalities of using digital technology
with children, adolescents and adults to life and the use of social
media in art therapy practice, networking and community-building is
also discussed.
Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching explores various
multidisciplinary visual and performing art forms, including
creative writing, as ways to provide a rich contribution and
understanding to research, learning and teaching. Key figures in
the field share their art-based research, arts practice and
philosophy, bringing the arts to life within their taught and
learnt contexts across a variety of art forms and levels of
post-compulsory education. In what is an invaluable collection,
this book is directly beneficial to arts researchers and educators,
addressing the key challenges and possibilities in a rapidly
changing higher education environment.
Stephen K. Levine's new book explores the nature of traumatic
experience and the therapeutic role of the arts and arts therapies
in responding to it. It suggests that by re-imagining painful and
tragic experiences through art-making, we may release their fixity
and negative hold on our lives and resist the temptation to assume
the role of the victim. Among the many concerns that the book
addresses is the damage done by the tendency to adopt stock methods
of understanding and superficial explanations for the depths,
complexities, wonders, and exasperations of human experience. The
book explores the chaos and fragmentation inherent in both art and
human existence and the ways in which memory and imagination can
find meaning by acknowledging this chaos and embodying it in
appropriate forms. The book builds on the important theories of
Stephen K. Levine's previous book, Poiesis: The Language of
Psychology and the Speech of the Soul, also published by Jessica
Kingsley Publishers. It challenges dominant psychological
perspectives on trauma and provides a new framework for arts
therapists, psychotherapists, psychologists and social scientists
to understand the effectiveness of the arts therapies in responding
to human suffering.
By the time you finish this book, the term "inanimate object" will
no longer have a place in your vocabulary, for Shaun McNiff will
awaken you to the wondrous energies streaming out of familiar
things and bringing a sense of magic into everyday life.
Join the author as he discovers the autonomous spirits of a silver
Mercedes convertible, a mysterious cigarette burn on the dining
room table, and the scary shadow of a tree outside a child's room.
Contemplate with him the bleakness of a hotel conference room and
the crucifix that hung over his childhood bed. Let him lead you on
a field trip to the "unholy lands" of the shopping mall and faculty
meeting, to the familiar spirits of his seaside New England homes,
to the realm of dream, reverie, and memory, as he demonstrates how
to connect with the life-giving energies of images and things,
places and people. These are the earth angels--spirits of everyday
life that call for the return of our lost soul to the world.
Unlike the images of winged beings that now pervade popular
culture, the earth angels also include the soul's unattractive
messengers, whose mission may require offense, pain, or fear as a
preparation for change and renewal. Does a Styrofoam cup have soul?
McNiff says yes, for the most debased things show us that the
presence of the divine depends upon the quality of attention that
we bring to our experiences.
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