Patricia Quinn is a licensed art, addiction and trauma therapist with 38 years of clinical mental health experience. She is a professor of art therapy, lectures widely and writes on its use in treating addiction and trauma. She maintains a private practice in New York's Hudson Valley.

In this landmark text, Quinn orchestrates and enlists contributions from experts in the fields of Art Therapy, Addiction and Trauma. Through these chapters, Quinn reveals the creative forces mobilized by art making and its salubrious and transformative effect on addiction and trauma. This opus offers current research and strategies for overcoming the cognitive damage caused by addiction and trauma, via the use of varied art media and methods to stimulate neurological change and recovery. A must read.

• 1. The Paradigmatic Shift in Addiction Treatment2. Art Therapy in Addiction Treatment3. Trauma, Addiction and Art4. The Evolution of Trauma Therapy and its Relevance to Art Therapy5. Healing Addiction and Trauma with the Expressive Therapies Continuum and a Neurosequential Art Approach6. Jungian Interventions to Center, Explore and Recover7. Speaking Out: Art Therapy for Trauma, Eating Disorders and Substance Use Disorders8. Gestalt Art Therapy with Family Constellation in Addiction Treatment9. Psychoanalytic Theory as Used in Art Therapy for Addiction and Trauma10. An Archetypal Journey Through Transitional Space: Art Therapy with an Alcoholic Man in Mid-Life11. Art Therapy with Military Veteran Populations: Navigating Self and System12. Art Therapy in the Forensic Setting13. Freedom from Addiction and Captivity: Art Therapy for the CSE

Patricia Quinn is a licensed art, addiction and trauma therapist with 38 years of clinical mental health experience. She is a professor of art therapy, lectures widely and writes on its use in treating addiction and trauma. She maintains a private practice in New York's Hudson Valley.

In this landmark text, Quinn orchestrates and enlists contributions from experts in the fields of Art Therapy, Addiction and Trauma. Through these chapters, Quinn reveals the creative forces mobilized by art making and its salubrious and transformative effect on addiction and trauma. This opus offers current research and strategies for overcoming the cognitive damage caused by addiction and trauma, via the use of varied art media and methods to stimulate neurological change and recovery. A must read.

• 1. The Paradigmatic Shift in Addiction Treatment2. Art Therapy in Addiction Treatment3. Trauma, Addiction and Art4. The Evolution of Trauma Therapy and its Relevance to Art Therapy5. Healing Addiction and Trauma with the Expressive Therapies Continuum and a Neurosequential Art Approach6. Jungian Interventions to Center, Explore and Recover7. Speaking Out: Art Therapy for Trauma, Eating Disorders and Substance Use Disorders8. Gestalt Art Therapy with Family Constellation in Addiction Treatment9. Psychoanalytic Theory as Used in Art Therapy for Addiction and Trauma10. An Archetypal Journey Through Transitional Space: Art Therapy with an Alcoholic Man in Mid-Life11. Art Therapy with Military Veteran Populations: Navigating Self and System12. Art Therapy in the Forensic Setting13. Freedom from Addiction and Captivity: Art Therapy for the CSE