Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy
Accessing the Body's Wisdom and Creative Intelligence
- 256 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Focusing provides an effective way of listening to the innate wisdom of the body, while art therapy harnesses and activates creative intelligence. Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy: Accessing the Body's Wisdom and Creative Intelligence is a ground-breaking book integrating renowned psychologist Eugene Gendlin's Focusing with art therapy. This new, Focusing-based approach to art therapy helps clients to befriend their inner experience, access healing imagery from the body's felt sense to express in art, and carry forward implicit steps that lead toward change.
Written for readers to be able to learn the application of this innovative approach, the book provides in-depth examples and descriptions of how to adapt Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy to a wide variety of clinical populations including individuals and groups with severe psychiatric illness, trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, and more, as well as applications to private practice, illness and wellness, spirituality, and self-care.
Integrating theory, clinical practice, and numerous guided exercises, this accessible book will enhance clinical sensitivity and skill, while adding resources for bringing creativity into practice. It will be of interest to art therapists, Focusing therapists, psychologists, counselors and social workers, as well as trainers and students.
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Table of contents
- FRONT COVER
- Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy: Accessing the Body’s Wisdom and Creative Intelligence
- Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- FOREWORD
- Introduction
- Part I: Focusing and Art Therapy
- Part II: Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy
- Part III: Clinical Approaches
- Part IV: Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy Exercises
- APPENDIX A: SUPERVISION AND SELF-CARE
- APPENDIX B: RESOURCES
- REFERENCES
- SUBJECT INDEX
- Author Index
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