Marián Cao is an Art Therapist and Professor of Art Education and Art Therapy at the University Complutense of Madrid, Spain. She teaches and lectures in Spain and internationally. Founder director of the AT master’s programme at University Complutense of Madrid, and former director of the Ph.D. programme on Art, Art Therapy and Social Inclusion, she has coordinated several Latinoamerican University programmes.Richard Hougham is Principal Lecturer at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London where he is course leader of the MA Drama and Movement Therapy programme. He is Chair of the Executive Board of European Consortium of Arts Therapies Education (ECArTE) and has a particular interest in intercultural dialogues and epistemology in the international teaching of the arts therapies.Sarah Scoble is Honorary President of ECArTE. She served on the Executive Board of ECArTE for over twenty years and was Chair from 2009 to 2017. Founder trainer in southwest UK in Dramatherapy and former director of Masters in Dramatherapy programmes, University of Exeter, she is Series Editor with Diane Waller for the annual International Research in the Arts Therapies publication with Routledge, in association with ECArTE and the International Centre for Research in Arts Therapies (ICRA), Imperial College, London.

• BiographiesAcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter 1- On the unknown that art addresses: Space, vacuum and awareness in the arts Marián López Fdz. CaoChapter 2- Educating the Quixotic imaginationRobert D. RomanyshynChapter 3- Changing truths: Deconstructing and reconstructing the elusive in art therapy Uwe HerrmannChapter 4- Dramatherapy and materialityRichard Hougham, Bryn JonesChapter 5- The dramatic self paradigm: Human nature from a dramatherapist’s perspective Salvo PitruzzellaChapter 6- Aesthetics of connection in the performance of lived experience Jean-François JacquesChapter 7- Intercultural art therapy - the search for an inner homeIrit BelityChapter 8- Samagama - Dialogues on the development of professional creative arts therapy practice, research and training from India Oihika Chakrabarti, Tripura Kashyap, Maitri Gopalakrishna, Nina CherlaChapter 9- Trust, art therapy and care: An art therapy experience at three community health centres Ana Serrano Navarro, Tania Ugena Candel, Andrea López Iglesias Chapter 10- Dance movement therapy for couples: Disclosing multiple truths in the relationshipEinat Shuper Engelhard, Maya VulcanChapter 11- Working psychoanalytically with clients with learning disability: the real giants we face: A long-term music therapy with an adopted girl with significant multiple disabilitiesJoy GravestockChapter 12- What are we talking about?: Development of an empirical base for art therapy with children diagnosed with autism spectrum disordersCeline Schweizer Chapter 13- When the boat doesn’t dare to set sail: Working with trust issues in childrenSibylle Cseri

Marián Cao is an Art Therapist and Professor of Art Education and Art Therapy at the University Complutense of Madrid, Spain. She teaches and lectures in Spain and internationally. Founder director of the AT master’s programme at University Complutense of Madrid, and former director of the Ph.D. programme on Art, Art Therapy and Social Inclusion, she has coordinated several Latinoamerican University programmes.Richard Hougham is Principal Lecturer at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London where he is course leader of the MA Drama and Movement Therapy programme. He is Chair of the Executive Board of European Consortium of Arts Therapies Education (ECArTE) and has a particular interest in intercultural dialogues and epistemology in the international teaching of the arts therapies.Sarah Scoble is Honorary President of ECArTE. She served on the Executive Board of ECArTE for over twenty years and was Chair from 2009 to 2017. Founder trainer in southwest UK in Dramatherapy and former director of Masters in Dramatherapy programmes, University of Exeter, she is Series Editor with Diane Waller for the annual International Research in the Arts Therapies publication with Routledge, in association with ECArTE and the International Centre for Research in Arts Therapies (ICRA), Imperial College, London.

• BiographiesAcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter 1- On the unknown that art addresses: Space, vacuum and awareness in the arts Marián López Fdz. CaoChapter 2- Educating the Quixotic imaginationRobert D. RomanyshynChapter 3- Changing truths: Deconstructing and reconstructing the elusive in art therapy Uwe HerrmannChapter 4- Dramatherapy and materialityRichard Hougham, Bryn JonesChapter 5- The dramatic self paradigm: Human nature from a dramatherapist’s perspective Salvo PitruzzellaChapter 6- Aesthetics of connection in the performance of lived experience Jean-François JacquesChapter 7- Intercultural art therapy - the search for an inner homeIrit BelityChapter 8- Samagama - Dialogues on the development of professional creative arts therapy practice, research and training from India Oihika Chakrabarti, Tripura Kashyap, Maitri Gopalakrishna, Nina CherlaChapter 9- Trust, art therapy and care: An art therapy experience at three community health centres Ana Serrano Navarro, Tania Ugena Candel, Andrea López Iglesias Chapter 10- Dance movement therapy for couples: Disclosing multiple truths in the relationshipEinat Shuper Engelhard, Maya VulcanChapter 11- Working psychoanalytically with clients with learning disability: the real giants we face: A long-term music therapy with an adopted girl with significant multiple disabilitiesJoy GravestockChapter 12- What are we talking about?: Development of an empirical base for art therapy with children diagnosed with autism spectrum disordersCeline Schweizer Chapter 13- When the boat doesn’t dare to set sail: Working with trust issues in childrenSibylle Cseri

Marián Cao is an Art Therapist and Professor of Art Education and Art Therapy at the University Complutense of Madrid, Spain. She teaches and lectures in Spain and internationally. Founder director of the AT master’s programme at University Complutense of Madrid, and former director of the Ph.D. programme on Art, Art Therapy and Social Inclusion, she has coordinated several Latinoamerican University programmes.Richard Hougham is Principal Lecturer at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London where he is course leader of the MA Drama and Movement Therapy programme. He is Chair of the Executive Board of European Consortium of Arts Therapies Education (ECArTE) and has a particular interest in intercultural dialogues and epistemology in the international teaching of the arts therapies.Sarah Scoble is Honorary President of ECArTE. She served on the Executive Board of ECArTE for over twenty years and was Chair from 2009 to 2017. Founder trainer in southwest UK in Dramatherapy and former director of Masters in Dramatherapy programmes, University of Exeter, she is Series Editor with Diane Waller for the annual International Research in the Arts Therapies publication with Routledge, in association with ECArTE and the International Centre for Research in Arts Therapies (ICRA), Imperial College, London.

• BiographiesAcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter 1- On the unknown that art addresses: Space, vacuum and awareness in the arts Marián López Fdz. CaoChapter 2- Educating the Quixotic imaginationRobert D. RomanyshynChapter 3- Changing truths: Deconstructing and reconstructing the elusive in art therapy Uwe HerrmannChapter 4- Dramatherapy and materialityRichard Hougham, Bryn JonesChapter 5- The dramatic self paradigm: Human nature from a dramatherapist’s perspective Salvo PitruzzellaChapter 6- Aesthetics of connection in the performance of lived experience Jean-François JacquesChapter 7- Intercultural art therapy - the search for an inner homeIrit BelityChapter 8- Samagama - Dialogues on the development of professional creative arts therapy practice, research and training from India Oihika Chakrabarti, Tripura Kashyap, Maitri Gopalakrishna, Nina CherlaChapter 9- Trust, art therapy and care: An art therapy experience at three community health centres Ana Serrano Navarro, Tania Ugena Candel, Andrea López Iglesias Chapter 10- Dance movement therapy for couples: Disclosing multiple truths in the relationshipEinat Shuper Engelhard, Maya VulcanChapter 11- Working psychoanalytically with clients with learning disability: the real giants we face: A long-term music therapy with an adopted girl with significant multiple disabilitiesJoy GravestockChapter 12- What are we talking about?: Development of an empirical base for art therapy with children diagnosed with autism spectrum disordersCeline Schweizer Chapter 13- When the boat doesn’t dare to set sail: Working with trust issues in childrenSibylle Cseri