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Art Therapy in Museums and Galleries: Reframing Practice

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This is the first book to explore and evaluate the potential of museum and gallery spaces and partnerships for art therapy. Showcasing approaches by well-known art therapists, the edited collection contains descriptions of, and reflections on, art therapy in museums and galleries around the globe. C ase studies encompass a broad range of client groups, including people with dementia, refugees and clients recovering from substance abuse, exploring the therapeutic skills required to work in these settings. The collection also establishes the context for art therapy in museums and galleries through reviewing key literature and engaging with the latest research, to consider wider perspectives on how these spaces inform therapeutic practice. Offering a comprehensive look at ways in which these locations enable novel and creative therapeutic work, this is an essential book for art therapists, arts and health practitioners and museum professionals.
Bringing together a range of novel ideas, critical thinking and good practice, this timely book is a must read for art therapists and art psychotherapists, museum professionals and all those interested in the intersections between arts and health. Museums, their collections, spaces and staff offer a vast, often, untapped potential to support professional therapeutic practice; this volume is the first step to realising the multifarious benefits of a closer alignment between museums and art therapy.
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