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Studio Art Therapy: Cultivating the Artist Identity in the Art Therapist

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Arguing that the profession of arts therapy has its roots in the studio environment, the author proposes that it is time to reclaim these rots, and make art once again central to art therapy. She suggests that there has been a tendency for art therapy not merely to interact and be enriched by other perspectives but to be subsumed by them. for this reason she makes a clear distinction between using art in ones practice of therapy, and working from an art-based model. This book presents a model of art therapy where the products and processes of art constitute the core of the model rather than serving as the impetutus for adaptions of other theories of counselling or therapy. It addresses how an arts-based approach can inform the therapist in all aspects of practice, form the conception of the work and the attempt to understand client needs to inteacting with clients and communicating with others about others about the profession of art therapy.

Chapter 1. Introduction. Chapter 2. How we conceive of the work we do. Chapter 3. The process of cultivating an artist identity. Chapter 4. Attempting to understand our clients through the poetry of their lives. Chapter 5. The multicultural languages of art. Chapter 6. The influence of an artistic perspective on treatment planning. Chapter 7. How an artist identity informs the work we do with clients. Chapter 8. Communicating with others about the work we do. Chapter 9. The ethics of studio art therapy. Chapter 10. Art therapy, the art world and social responsibility. Chapter 11. Conclusions, References. Index.

The main concerns of this book are that art therapy has been subsumed in other healing practices and that it is time for art therapy to be reclaimed once more for what it should be, a practice based on the products and processes of art. The author argues that the original spirit of studio art therapy must have a place in the development of current art therapy practices.

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