Stephen K. Levine is Professor Emeritus of Social Science at York University in Toronto, Canada, Vice-Provost and Dean of the Doctoral Program in Expressive Arts Therapy: Education, Consulting and Social Change at the European Graduate School in Switzerland, and Co-Director of ISIS Canada. Shaun McNiff PhD, ATR is the Provost and Dean of Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts. An internationally-renowned figure in the creative arts therapies, he has written many critically-acclaimed books including Art as Medicine: Creating a Therapy of the Imagination,Educating the Creative Arts Therapist and Depth Psychology of Art. Dr McNiff has been honoured on many occasions for his pioneering contributions to the creative arts therapy field, and he is the 1997 recipient of the America Art Therapy Association's Honorary Life Member Award.

It is difficult to describe this book in a few words - please read it and be inspired!

• Introduction. Part I: Principles. Poiesis and the Aesthetics of Social Change, Stephen K. Levine. Expressive Arts and Social Change: Have We Gone Beyond Therapy?, Ellen G. Levine. The Capacity of Expressive Arts to Facilitate Change: A Human Imperative, Karen Estrella. Communal Art Making and Conflict Management: The Art Experience as a Resource for a Meditation-focused Discourse, Paolo Knill. Dark Aspects of Creation: The Alchemy of Imagination, Shaun McNiff. Part II: Issues. Trauma and Performance: Constructing Meaning After Tragedy - The Theater of Witness, Jack Saul. A Social-critical Reading of Indigenous Women's Art: The Use of Visual Data to 'Show', Rather than 'Tell', of the Intersection of Different Layers of Oppression, Ephrat Huss. Inside and Outside: The Collision Between Internal and External Worlds in Contexts of Political Violence and Social Change, Debra Kalmanowitz and Bobby Lloyd. Toward a New Understanding of the Effectiveness of the Arts Therapies in the Treatment of PTSD: A Poetic, Neuropsychological Approach, Mooli Lahad. A Wu Wei of Social Change: Some Thoughts on Relational Aesthetics Under Unlikely Circumstances, Sabine Silberberg. Listening to the Voice of Victims: The Healing Power of Poetry in Contexts of Torture and War, Shanee Stepakoff. Part III: Projects. The Choreography of Absence: (In)habiting the Imagination After War in Sierra Leone, Carrie MacLeod. Creating Space for Change: The Use of Expressive Arts with Vulnerable Children and Women Prisoners in Sub-Saharan Africa, Gloria Simoneaux. Beauty in the Rough Places: Expressive Arts Responses to Critical Incidents in Darfur, Karen Abbs. The Child in the Street: Expressive Arts in Bolivia, Sally Atkins. Owning the Unknown: The Metamorphosis of The Children's Expressive Arts Project at Bard College, Susanna Armbruster. A Voice in the Scene of Chaos:  Expressive Arts and Social Practice within the Peruvian Context, TAE Peru (Judith Alalu, Jose Miguel Calderon, Ximena Maurial, Monica Prado, Pilar Souza, Martin Zavala). Rising From the Depths: Lesley University's Experience in Using the Expressive Arts as a Tool to Integrate Ethiopian Jewish Immigrants in Nes Ziona, Israel, Vivien Markow-Speiser and Samuel Schwartz.

Stephen K. Levine is Professor Emeritus of Social Science at York University in Toronto, Canada, Vice-Provost and Dean of the Doctoral Program in Expressive Arts Therapy: Education, Consulting and Social Change at the European Graduate School in Switzerland, and Co-Director of ISIS Canada. Shaun McNiff PhD, ATR is the Provost and Dean of Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts. An internationally-renowned figure in the creative arts therapies, he has written many critically-acclaimed books including Art as Medicine: Creating a Therapy of the Imagination,Educating the Creative Arts Therapist and Depth Psychology of Art. Dr McNiff has been honoured on many occasions for his pioneering contributions to the creative arts therapy field, and he is the 1997 recipient of the America Art Therapy Association's Honorary Life Member Award.

It is difficult to describe this book in a few words - please read it and be inspired!

• Introduction. Part I: Principles. Poiesis and the Aesthetics of Social Change, Stephen K. Levine. Expressive Arts and Social Change: Have We Gone Beyond Therapy?, Ellen G. Levine. The Capacity of Expressive Arts to Facilitate Change: A Human Imperative, Karen Estrella. Communal Art Making and Conflict Management: The Art Experience as a Resource for a Meditation-focused Discourse, Paolo Knill. Dark Aspects of Creation: The Alchemy of Imagination, Shaun McNiff. Part II: Issues. Trauma and Performance: Constructing Meaning After Tragedy - The Theater of Witness, Jack Saul. A Social-critical Reading of Indigenous Women's Art: The Use of Visual Data to 'Show', Rather than 'Tell', of the Intersection of Different Layers of Oppression, Ephrat Huss. Inside and Outside: The Collision Between Internal and External Worlds in Contexts of Political Violence and Social Change, Debra Kalmanowitz and Bobby Lloyd. Toward a New Understanding of the Effectiveness of the Arts Therapies in the Treatment of PTSD: A Poetic, Neuropsychological Approach, Mooli Lahad. A Wu Wei of Social Change: Some Thoughts on Relational Aesthetics Under Unlikely Circumstances, Sabine Silberberg. Listening to the Voice of Victims: The Healing Power of Poetry in Contexts of Torture and War, Shanee Stepakoff. Part III: Projects. The Choreography of Absence: (In)habiting the Imagination After War in Sierra Leone, Carrie MacLeod. Creating Space for Change: The Use of Expressive Arts with Vulnerable Children and Women Prisoners in Sub-Saharan Africa, Gloria Simoneaux. Beauty in the Rough Places: Expressive Arts Responses to Critical Incidents in Darfur, Karen Abbs. The Child in the Street: Expressive Arts in Bolivia, Sally Atkins. Owning the Unknown: The Metamorphosis of The Children's Expressive Arts Project at Bard College, Susanna Armbruster. A Voice in the Scene of Chaos:  Expressive Arts and Social Practice within the Peruvian Context, TAE Peru (Judith Alalu, Jose Miguel Calderon, Ximena Maurial, Monica Prado, Pilar Souza, Martin Zavala). Rising From the Depths: Lesley University's Experience in Using the Expressive Arts as a Tool to Integrate Ethiopian Jewish Immigrants in Nes Ziona, Israel, Vivien Markow-Speiser and Samuel Schwartz.