Art Therapy - Teaching Psychology

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xxi Acknowledgments Many have helped in the work on this book; I can express my gratitude to only a few. I was astonished to fin ...

xxii • Acknowledgments As for the written part, I thank Natalie Gilman, my first editor on this project, for talking me into it, ...

xxiii A Few Words About Style Before getting into the text, I should like to explain some stylistic decisions... Since the vast ...

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xxv Introduction to the Revised Edition After writing the first edition of this book (Rubin, 1998), I began work on a film overv ...

xxvi • Introduction to the Revised Edition large screen (www.expressivemedia.org). It, too, is an overview of the field, and in ...

Introduction to the Revised Edition • xxvii In the first edition I tried to save space by artificially shortening citations, whi ...

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1 CHAPTER 1 Previews The Many Faces of Art Therapy What does art therapy look like? Art therapy is, always has been, and will co ...

2 • Introduction to Art Therapy therapy depends on the inherently therapeutic power of art, which is available to anyone who pai ...

Previews • 3 How Art Helped Me at Times of Trauma Sometimes making art became, for me as for others, a way of coping with trauma ...

4 • Introduction to Art Therapy The fifth began as a stark, angular tree, then an image of a tombstone, and then I thought of su ...

Previews • 5 week with clay, the next with paint, then with collage, and with the final week’s product— for me, a painted portra ...

6 • Introduction to Art Therapy drew me in “fancy clothes, wearing a see-through dress ... and a fancy hairdo.” He drew him- sel ...

Previews • 7 children. By the time she was six, Jenny was able to include both Jon and Nona in her drawing, although she still p ...

8 • Introduction to Art Therapy Figure 1.5 “A Girl has Grown Long Hair & Locked Her Mommy in the Garage.” Figure 1.6 A funny ...

Previews • 9 I discovered that art therapy was the perfect choice for me as well. Some of the following vignettes took place at ...

10 • Introduction to Art Therapy Endings in all therapy, including art therapy, are poignant times, full of the potential for gr ...

Previews • 11 her art (D). “Goodbye. I’m not gonna see you no more, but I’m gonna cry if I don’t see you no more.” I told Lori t ...