New Developments in Expressive Arts Therapy

In an age that sees too many therapists and counselors writing in strings of buzzwords and trendy movements, the contributors to this book remind us there are deeper currents that bind us in our common work. From time to time artist/therapists need to rejoice in the human, and soulful nature of making art in the service of healing. This book may provide opportunities for many to pause, take stock, and rejoice. -- Bruce L. Moon, PhD, ATR-BC, Professor, Art Therapy Department, Mount Mary University Expressive arts therapy is rapidly emerging as a mainstream approach in psychotherapy and healthcare. This volume vividly illustrates leading-edge expressive arts applications while providing important historical foundations of this field. Readers will be inspired by the authors' wisdom and insights on theory and practice of expressive arts in mental health, education, research and community work. -- Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPCC, LPAT, ATR-BC, REAT, Executive Director, Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute Ellen and Stephen Levine have given birth to an anthology of breadth and depth, of ideas and revelations. The writers are carefully chosen to open up the boundaries and conversations regarding expressive therapy, a discipline more needed than ever in a broken world in denial of history and in need of direction. The Levines offer a blueprint for repair, a poiesis in itself, something new and playful and powerful. -- Robert Landy, Ph.D., Professor of Educational Theatre and Applied Psychology, Founding Director, Drama Therapy Program, New York University

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. Herbert Eberhart, Ph.D., is a social worker and clinical psychologist. He worked for 25 years as a Senior Professor at the Zurich School of Social Work, and he teaches at several higher education institutions, including the European Graduate School in Switzerland. 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.

Preface. Stephen K. Levine. Stuhl-leben. Brigitte Wanzenreid. The Poietics of Alterity. Stephen K. Levine. Part I. Theory. Pasture 6. Shaun McNiff. After. Sally Atkins. 1. Cultivating Imagination. Shaun McNiff. 2. The Essence in a Therapeutic Process, an Alternative Experience of Worlding? Paolo J. Knill. 3. Longing for Beauty and the Work: An Interview with Paolo Knill. 4. Modality: A Phenomenological Concept for Expressive Arts. Jacques Stitelmann. 5. The Poietic Basis of Being: Thoughts on Expression and the Other Person Based on the Work of Merleau-Ponty. Majken Jacoby. Part II. Therapy. Nutcase Alarm. Rowesa Gordon. Practicum on the Eating Disorders Ward: Sonnet 1. Shara Claire. 6. The Arts Work: The Process of Intermodal Decentering in Professional Conversations. Herbert Eberhart. 7. The Question of Quality Art in Expressive Arts Therapy. Shaun McNiff. 8. A Tango in the Ruins: Encounters with Beauty in a Harm Reduction Environment. Sabine Silberberg. 9. Stepping into Locked Space: An Algorithmic Dialogue Between Choreography and In-Patient Work. Rebekah Windmiller. 10. The Garden of Praise and Lament: Expressive Arts Group Psychotherapy with Trauma Survivors in Exile. Melinda Ashley Meyer DeMott. 11. Play, Art and Ritual: Working Therapeutically with Children and their Parents. Ellen G. Levine. Part III. Education. Untitled. Judy Nisenholt. CHANGE in the AIR. Elizabeth McKim. 12. Aesthetic Education: Learning Through the Arts. Stephen K. Levine. 13. Aesthetic Responsibility in Expressive Arts: Thoughts on Beauty, Responsibility and the New in the Education of Expressive Arts Professionals. Margo Fuchs Knill and Paolo Knill. 14. Education on the Edge: Acts of Balance. Elisabeth Hsli and Peter Wanzenried. 15. Art Asylum: Exploring Otherness Through Play and Art-making. Ellen Levine. 16. Artists in Community: The Black Mountain College and the White Mountain Graduate School. Sally Atkins. Part IV. Social and Ecological Change. Degradation and Preservation (mixed media on cardboard). Ellen Levine. Cedar Fire Fragment. Judith Greer Essex. 17. Community Art: Communal Art-Making to Build a Sense of Coherence. Paolo J. Knill. 18. The Pulse of Humanity. Carrie MacLeod. 19. What Do You Care About? Arts Therapies in Support of Civil Courage in a 'World Gone Slightly Mad'. Rosemary Faire. 20. Why Eco-philosophy and Expressive Arts? Per Espen Stoknes. 21. Nature as a Work of Art: Towards a Poietic Ecology. Stephen K. Levine. Part V Research. ROCK, from 4 perspectives (2004). Kelly Lycan. AMONG. Elizabeth McKim. 22. The Open Space of Art-Based Research. Shaun McNiff. 23. Crafting Maps, Attuning to Flesh, and Dancing the Radicant: Mobilizing the Expressive Arts and Arts-Based Research to do a Conceptual Translation of 'Science as Usual'. Kelly Clark/Keefe, Jessica Gilway and Emily Miller. 24. Knowing Not-Knowing: Research as an Art-Analogue Process. Sabine Silberberg. 25. Playing with Auschwitz: A Liminal Inquiry into Images of Evil. Lisa Herman. 26. Per-forming Home: Spinning New Scripts for Re-Search. Carrie MacLeod. Cold Spell. Isabel Hayeur. Two Poems. Margo Fuchs Knill. Contributors.