Dr Natalie Rae Carlton is an Associate Professor of Art therapy and Arts-based research in the Creative Arts Therapies Department at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Description
Part One: The meaningfulness of comics and graphic novels 1.Graphic novels and comics for therapy and education by Natalie Rae Carlton 2.Graphic Novels as Social Justice by Djuna Carlton 3.How Symbols are Made by Natalie Rae Carlton Part Two: Demonstrations of comics and graphic novels in art therapy practice: Process and structure 4.Disrupting the Trauma Narrative: Deconstructing Comic Books and DBT by Jessica Massino Drass 5.Embodied Impacts of Trauma by Katharine Houpt 6.Use of Therapeutic Graphic Montage to Address Loneliness by Jonas Ginsburg Part Three: Using comics and graphic novels in autobiographical and artistic response practices as art therapists 7.Being here is hard (scary/bullsh*t/easy/hell/stupid/better than home/why i'm alive) by Quinn Rivenburgh 8.exit: Buried Underneath by Alex Wright 9.Unspoken kinship within the therapeutic relationship by Naimah Thomas 10.Hope and Despair: Images from the hospital by Deborah John 11.Media Evocation by Natalie Rae Carlton
A wonderful, accessible love-letter to comics, zines, and graphic medicine. Featuring diverse therapeutic and pedagogical approaches, critical social justice conversations and first-person narratives, it transforms personal stories into communal conversations. An essential portal into the magic of comics in art therapy. -- Rakshanda Khan MA, DTATI, RP, RCAT, Research & Publications Chair, Canadian Art Therapy Association Words with images-the defining feature of the three formats focused on in this book. Carlton and her colleagues discuss and demonstrate this pairing in ways both scholarly and personal. Readers/viewers will enjoy this rich exploration of these genres in art therapy and related contexts. -- Randy M. Vick, MS, ATR-BC, HLM Professor Emeritus, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Redefining art therapy literature, this bold volume integrates graphic narratives and sequential art to expand visual storytelling in therapy and community care. Rooted in global and Indigenous healing traditions and honoring media as part of the natural world, it offers readers a phenomenological experience of imagery's transformative power. -- Denise R. Wolf, Associate Clinical Professor, Art Therapy and Counseling, Drexel University