Full Description
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.
Contents
Foreword by Judith A. Rubin. Introduction. Part I: Focusing and Art Therapy. 1. Focusing: History and Concepts. 2. Gendlin's Focusing Method. 3. Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy. 4. Art Therapy: History, Concepts, and Practice. Part II: Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy. 5. Bridging Focusing and Art Therapy. 6.. Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy: Basics. Part III: Clinical Approaches. 7. Clearing a Space with Art. 8. Focusing-Oriented Art Psychotherapy. Groups: Theme-Directed. 9. Stress Reduction in Psychiatric Day Treatment. 10. Self-Care in a State Prison. 11. Transforming the Inner Critic. 11. Bridging Cultures with Focusing-Oriented Art Therapy. Specialty Applications: 13. Health and Wellness. 14. Working with Trauma. 15. Spirituality. 16. Expanding to the Other Expressive Arts. Part IV: Focusing Oriented Art Therapy Exercises. 17. Guided Exercises. Appendix A: Supervision and Self-Care. Appendix B: Resources. References. Index.
