Gender Issues in Art Therapy

Foreword, Professor Diane Waller, Goldsmiths' College, University of London Introduction, Susan Hogan, University of Derby. 1. Feminist art therapy: Contributions from feminist theory and contemporary art practice, Nancy Viva Davis Halifax, Vermont College, Norwich University. 2. Just a stage I'm going through: Reflections on placement at an adolescent psychiatric unit, Hilary Bichovsky, Manchester Adult Education. 3. Art therapy with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered clients, Donna Addison, Community Mental Health Agency, Illinois, USA. 4. Singing with pleasure and shouting with anger: Working with gay and lesbian clients in art therapy, Jean Fraser and Judith Waldman. 5. From the peninsula: The geography of gender issues in art therapy, Maggie Jones. 6. Working with men, Marian Liehmann, Bristol University. 7. A Mediterranean perspective on the art therapist's sexual orientation, Jose Batista Loureiro De Oliveira, University of Bologna, Italy. 8. A discussion of the use of art therapy with women who are pregnant or who have recently given birth, Susan Hogan, University of Derby. 9. Re-visions on group art therapy with women who have experienced domestic and sexual violence, Nancy Slater, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel. 10. Decolonisation: Third world women and conflicts in feminist perspectives and art therapy, Savneet Talwar, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, USA. 11. Challenging invisibility: Outrageous agers, Rosy Martin, Loughborough University. Index.

Gender Issues in Art Therapy addresses the multiple ways that genders and same-sex orientation is negotiated and mediated in art therapy practice and research. The book covers a range of topics including internalised homophobia, men-only and women-only art therapy groups, feminist art therapy theory and gender deliberations.