artistic expression in therapy : creative arts and the process of healing : an image/word approach inquiry /
First Statement of Responsibility
Martina Schnetz ; forewords by V. Darroch-Lozowski and David Wright.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Philadelphia, PA :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Jessica Kingsley,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2005.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (251 pages) :
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illustrations
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-244) and indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction to the healing flow: an image oriented approach to inquiry and psychotherapy -- Interpretative quilting as a qualitative approach to inquiry -- The nature of truth in interpretative quilting -- The role of contextual factors in interpretative quilting -- Sam's journey with the healing flow -- Mary's journey with the healing flow -- A view into the activities in an art therapy session -- Verbal reflection phase of the healing flow of images and the quality of the -- Dialogical image/word process -- Transition phase and closing ritual as a container of the healing flow -- Interpretative border : the process of art toward healing in psychotherapy -- Final stitching: closure ritual and the transitional function of the -- Dialogical image/word process.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Drawing on her extensive experience as a creative arts therapist, Martina Schnetz puts forward a new approach to the process of art in healing. She explores the dialogue between the internal world, external images, and words, shaping a new vocabulary for creative arts therapists. The Healing Flow is a theoretical and experiential account of the author's work with survivors of childhood trauma and post traumatic stress. Case studies are presented in this model. Through providing deeper insight into the creative processes, participants recover meaningful patterns in their lives, and restore conn.