Arts Therapies and Gender Issues: International Perspectives on Research

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
About the editor
List of contributors
Part I Art therapy, dance movement therapy, drama therapy and music therapy
	Chapter 1 Introduction: Arts therapies and gender issues
		Gender
		The body as a symbol
		Men are from Mars and women are from Venus
		Challenging the binary
		Acknowledgement
		Appendix of terms
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 2 Drawing on visions of the future of young women in poverty: Art as a feminist research method
		Introduction and literature survey
		Methods
		Data presentation and discussion
		Discussion
		References
	Chapter 3 Queering music therapy: Music therapy and LGBTQAI+ Peoples
		Queer theory framework of sexual identity and gender identity
		Sexual orientation
		Gender identity
		Lifespan development and coming out
		Allies
		Music therapy and LGBTQAI+ people
		Final thoughts
		Note
		References
	Chapter 4 Analysing gender oppression in music therapy research and practice
		Introduction
		Music, culture, and gender
		Music therapy and feminist theory
		Who writes and who cites? A gender audit of music therapy journal papers
		Citations
		What needs to change?
		Auditing author gender in 2016 music therapy journal papers
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 5 The eye of the beholder: Encountering women’s experience of domestic violence and abuse as a male researcher and art therapist
		Introduction
		Definitions of domestic violence and abuse
		Context and methodology
		Transitional stories of domestic violence and abuse
		Feminist standpoint theory and reflexivity
		The eye of the beholder
		Vulnerability
		The relationship between research and therapy
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	Chapter 6 Parental gender roles in clay: Perceptions of gender-role issues among Israeli fathers to toddlers as expressed in a clay figure-sculpting task
		Introduction
		Men, and the interplay of gender, in art therapy
		Art therapists working with fathers
		Researching fathers in an art therapy context
		The study
		Paternal representations and parenting-related gender roles
		Past – reworking paternal intergenerational transmissions
		Present – social and personal expectations of fathers
		Future – relating to perceived parental gender roles in therapy settings
		Fathers in art therapy – looking into the future
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 7 The birth project: Mothers and birth professionals make art
		Theory underlying the process
		Making meaning visually
		The ‘why’
		Our research questions
		The research
		Answering the research questions
		Acknowledgement
		Appendix: Film descriptors
		References
	Chapter 8 Queer bodies and queer practices: The implications of queer theory for dramatherapy
		Sexual orientation, gender identity
		What is queer?
		What queer theory can do re: critiques of heteronormativity
		Queers must query
		Connections with critical theory
		Implications for a queer dramatherapy
		References
	Chapter 9 The therapists’ gender identity in dance movement therapy: Does it matter?
		Foreword
		Introduction
		Different perspectives on gender identity in the last 60 years
		Gender identity and the therapeutic relationship
		Gender identity and dance movement therapy (DMT)/body-oriented therapy
		Researching gender identity in movement: Laban movement analysis (LMA)
		The research
		Discussion
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 10 The gendered body in arts therapies research and practice
		Background to this chapter
		Introduction
		The body as knowledge
		Reflections
		References and bibliography
Part II Emergent practices and specialisms
	Chapter 11 Multiple gendered abilities: A therapeutic writing approach
		Introduction
		Methodology and method
		Looking back
		The concept of intelligence
		Multiple abilities within a therapeutic writing approach
		Multiple abilities and positive reflective post-cathartic writing (PRPCW)
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 12 What can a man do with a camera?: Exploring masculinities with phototherapy
		Introduction
		Gender issues in phototherapy
		What has phototherapy to do with masculinities?
		Dismantling hegemonic masculinity in phototherapy
		Practical implications in working with men in phototherapy
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 13 Look at me! Representing self: Representing ageing: Older women represent their own narratives of ageing, using re-enactment phototherapeutic techniques
		Introduction
		‘Outrageous Agers’
		‘Look at me’ – The research context
		The workshops using phototherapeutic techniques
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 14 The treatment of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa among female adolescents aged 18–21 using intertwined (integrative) arts therapy
		Introduction
		Research methodology
		Results
		Discussion
		Appendix
		References
		Electronic resources
	Chapter 15 Complicated gender and problematised bodies: The impact of severe illness explored through the lens of portrait therapy
		References
	Chapter 16 Experimenting with gender roles in virtual reality
		Introduction
		Method
		Participants
		Procedure
		Results
		Discussion
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Concluding note
	Reference
Index