Focusing-oriented art therapy : accessing the body's wisdom and creative intelligence / Laury Rappaport ; foreword by Judith A. Rubin.

By:

Rappaport, Laury

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (251 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781846428524
1846428521
1281892610
9781281892614

Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Focusing-oriented art therapy.DDC classification:

616.89/1656 22

LOC classification:

RC489.A7 R37 2009eb

NLM classification:

WM 450.5.A8

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Focusing: history and concepts -- Gendlin's focusing method -- Focusing-oriented psychotherapy -- Art therapy: history, concepts, and practice -- Bridging focusing and art therapy -- Focusing-oriented art therapy: basics -- Clearing a space with art -- Focusing-oriented art psychotherapy -- Stress reduction in adult psychiatric day treatment -- Emotional healing and self-care in a state prison -- Transforming the inner critic -- Bridging cultures with focusing-oriented art therapy -- Health and wellness -- Working with trauma -- Spirituality and psychotherapy -- Expanding to the other expressive arts -- Guided exercises.

Summary: This new, Focusing-based approach to art therapy helps clients to befriend their inner experience, access healing imagery from the body's felt sense to express in art, and carry forward implicit steps that lead toward change. Written for readers to be able to learn the application of this innovative approach, the book provides in-depth examples and descriptions of how to adapt Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy to a wide variety of clinical populations including individuals and groups with severe psychiatric illness, trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, and more, as well as applications to private practice, illness and wellness, spirituality and self-care. Integrating theory, clinical practice, and numerous guided exercises, this accessible book will enhance clinical sensitivity and skill, while adding resources for bringing creativity into practice. It will be of interest to art therapists, Focusing therapists, psychologists, counselors and social workers, as well as trainers and students.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-244) and indexes.

Print version record.

This new, Focusing-based approach to art therapy helps clients to befriend their inner experience, access healing imagery from the body's felt sense to express in art, and carry forward implicit steps that lead toward change. Written for readers to be able to learn the application of this innovative approach, the book provides in-depth examples and descriptions of how to adapt Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy to a wide variety of clinical populations including individuals and groups with severe psychiatric illness, trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, and more, as well as applications to private practice, illness and wellness, spirituality and self-care. Integrating theory, clinical practice, and numerous guided exercises, this accessible book will enhance clinical sensitivity and skill, while adding resources for bringing creativity into practice. It will be of interest to art therapists, Focusing therapists, psychologists, counselors and social workers, as well as trainers and students.

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