Description
Part 1: Integrating the personal and theoretical splits in the struggle towards an identity as an art therapist; becoming an art therapist; creativity development; the use of imagery; a creative arts approach to art therapy; the play of psychotherapeutic artistry and psychoaesthetics; resistance in art therapy - a multi-model approach; art therapist and psychic healer - description of a joint workshop; clinical considerations; art diagnosis; diagnostic indicators in the artwork of borderline and dissociative patients; developing therapeutic artistry - a joint countertransference supervisory seminar/sculpting workshop; counter-transference and the art therapeutic process with borderline patients; technique; materials; institutional issues. Part 2 Case studies: clinical applications; art therapy with a floating fortress, Linda Joan Brown; merger and separateness, Kristin Stonehouse; regressive reintegration, Anne Reilly; play, art and photography in a therapeutic nursery school, Ellen Nelson/Gee; the phantom's mask - a search for meaning, Michele M. Neuhaus; a case of chronic childhood abuse, Patricia Savage Williams; the use of film, photography and art with ghetto adolescents, Marbara Maciag.