Principles And Practice Of Expressive Arts Therapy: Toward A Therapeutic Aesthetics

Cover......Page 1
Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy: Toward a Therapeutic Aesthetics......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Introduction by Stephen K. Levine......Page 11
Introduction......Page 17
Therapeutic practice and the critique of modernism......Page 19
Modernity and the mind–body split......Page 20
Phenomenology and the overcoming of Cartesian dualism......Page 23
Phenomenology and existence: being-in-the-world......Page 25
World and earth: art as a setting-into-work of truth......Page 28
Poiesis as a basis for the Menschenbild of expressive arts therapy......Page 33
Poiesis, chaos and liminal experience......Page 41
Liminality in the therapeutic process......Page 47
Liminality and transitional experience......Page 50
Archetypal psychology and the imagination......Page 53
Post-modernism and a deconstructed psychology of the imagination......Page 58
Trauma and the work of art......Page 64
Aesthetics after Auschwitz......Page 70
Conclusion......Page 73
References......Page 75
2. Foundations for a Theory of Practice by Paolo J. Knill......Page 77
The rites of restoration: architecture, role and setting......Page 78
Decentering, an indispensable condition for alternative world experiences......Page 85
What does it mean to “exercise” the arts or play in decentering, and how is it different from other decentering methods?......Page 87
Providing a range of play: Spielraum as an indispensable condition for an alternative world experience......Page 90
How do the arts provide the disciplined range of play?......Page 92
PART III: THE THEORY OF PRACTICE......Page 95
The heart of a session, the arts......Page 96
Interdisciplinary considerations (compare Knill et al. 1995)......Page 120
Intervention......Page 133
Interpretation and reflection......Page 149
Architectural considerations......Page 160
Administering the artistic process......Page 165
References......Page 171
PART I: TRAINING IN THE PRACTICE OF AN AESTHETIC THERAPY......Page 173
Group painting in a training process: structuring and destructuring through the arts......Page 178
The Horny Clay: dismembering and re-membering......Page 182
Clowning as an intermodal expressive art: training therapists through clown......Page 193
Music as a way of working through conflict in a training group......Page 201
PART II: THE PRACTICE OF AN AESTHETIC THERAPY......Page 204
Farah: breaking free and separating......Page 205
Robert: playing with power......Page 214
Jack: to the rescue......Page 219
Sue and Sam: deadlock and struggle......Page 222
Playing with order and chaos: a children’s play and arts therapy group......Page 229
Music as an instrument of order in chaos......Page 239
PART III: SUPERVISION OF THE PRACTICE OF AN AESTHETIC THERAPY......Page 240
Learning through the arts: group supervision of expressive arts therapy trainees......Page 245
Seeing and playing together: group supervision of a multidisciplinary training group......Page 252
Conclusion......Page 254
References......Page 257
About the Authors......Page 258
Subject Index......Page 260
Author Index......Page 266