Gender Issues in Art Therapy

Susan Hogan taught twentieth-century art history and theory at the University of New South Wales and the National Art School, Sydney. She served as Vice-President of the Australian National Art Therapy Association. She is currently Reader in Cultural Studies and Art Therapy at the University of Derby's School of Health and Community Studies, and is the author of Healing Arts: The History of Art Therapy, also published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Gender Issues in Art Therapy addresses the multiple ways that genders and same-sex orientation is negotiated and mediated in art therapy practice and research. The book covers a range of topics including internalised homophobia, men-only and women-only art therapy groups, feminist art therapy theory and gender deliberations.

• Foreword, Professor Diane Waller, Goldsmiths' College, University of London. Introduction, Susan Hogan, University of Derby. 1. Feminist art therapy: Contributions from feminist theory and contemporary art practice, Nancy Viva Davis Halifax, Vermont College, Norwich University. 2. Just a stage I'm going through: Reflections on placement at an adolescent psychiatric unit, Hilary Bichovsky, Manchester Adult Education. 3. Art therapy with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered clients, Donna Addison, Community Mental Health Agency, Illinois, USA. 4. Singing with pleasure and shouting with anger: Working with gay and lesbian clients in art therapy, Jean Fraser and Judith Waldman. 5. From the peninsula: The geography of gender issues in art therapy, Maggie Jones. 6. Working with men, Marian Liebmann, Bristol University. 7. A Mediterranean perspective on the art therapist's sexual orientation, José Batista Loureiro De Oliveira, University of Bologna, Italy. 8. A discussion of the use of art therapy with women who are pregnant or who have recently given birth, Susan Hogan, University of Derby. 9. Re-visions on group art therapy with women who have experienced domestic and sexual violence, Nancy Slater, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel. 10. Decolonisation: Third world women and conflicts in feminist perspectives and art therapy, Savneet Talwar, Southern Illinois University. 11. Challenging invisibility: Outrageous agers, Rosy Martin, Loughborough University. Index.