Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy: Accessing the Body's Wisdom and Creative Intelligence
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Author: Laury Rappaport
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley
Paperback:
ISBN 10: 1843107600
ISBN 13: 978-1843107606
Focusing provides an effective way of listening to the innate wisdom of the body, while art therapy harnesses and activates creative intelligence. Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy: Accessing the Body's Wisdom and Creative Intelligence is a ground-breaking book integrating renowned psychologist Eugene Gendlin's Focusing with art therapy. This new, Focusing-based approach to art therapy helps clients to befriend their inner experience, access healing imagery from the body's felt sense to express in art, and carry forward implicit steps that lead toward change.
Written for readers to be able to learn the application of this innovative approach, the book provides in-depth examples and descriptions of how to adapt Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy to a wide variety of clinical populations including individuals and groups with severe psychiatric illness, trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, and more, as well as applications to private practice, illness and wellness, spirituality, and self-care.
Integrating theory, clinical practice, and numerous guided exercises, this accessible book will enhance clinical sensitivity and skill, while adding resources for bringing creativity into practice. It will be of interest to art therapists, Focusing therapists, psychologists, counselors and social workers, as well as trainers and students.
Review
"Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy by Laury Rappaport is brilliantly conceptualized and written and will be useful to any mental health worker. Integrating theory, practice and case examples, the author successfully achieves her goal of integrating art therapy with Focusing with application to a wide variety of clients and settings. Her exercises and case examples reveal her to be a gifted therapist and her writing affords her the opportunity to share her creative talent with others. A must read." ---Barbara F. Okun, PhD Northeastern University and Harvard Medical School; author of Effective Helping: Interviewing and Counseling Techniques, Seeking and Connections in Psychotherapy
In a time the fields of neuroscience and somatic therapy increasingly inform therapeutic intervention, Laury Rappaport has written a book that is both timely and passionate in its message. As we continue to understand the relationship between the brain and emotion, sensory work or the “felt sense” is central to recovery and repair of both psyche and spirit. Rappaport provides a needed and comprehensive resource on why infusing the process of Focusing with art therapy is natural combination and one that creatively brings together mind and body in treatment. Every therapist who uses creative methods in their work will benefit from the wisdom found throughout this volume.” Cathy A. Malchiodi, PhD, ATR-BC, LPCC, National Institute for Trauma and Loss, faculty, Lesley University, author of Creative Interventions with Traumatized Children, Handbook of Art Therapy, Expressive Therapies, Breaking the Silence: Art Therapy with Children from Violent Homes
"Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy is a major contribution to art therapy literature and practice. Laury Rappaport introduces a contemplative method and philosophy grounded in the body's felt-sense of experience and its innate and largely unrecognized wisdom. This intellectually provocative, yet thoroughly practical text, establishes Rappaport as an emergent leader in the art therapy world and author of a book that every student and art therapist must read in order to appreciate the depth and breadth of our discipline." ---Shaun McNiff, University Professor, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, and author of The Arts in Psychotherapy, Art as Medicine, Art Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul, Art-Based Research
Book Description
Helping clients befriend their inner experience and heal though art and body wisdom
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