Description
This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the practice and results of art therapy in palliative care. It includes first-hand accounts from both therapists and clients in a variety of palliative care settings including:-
* hospices and hospitals
* patients own homes
* prisons (AIDS patients)
* adolescent griefwork groups
These case studies include examples of client art work and illustrate clearly how art therapy can allow patients to regain feelings of control over their lives.
Table of Contents
Part I; Chapter 1 What is art therapy?, Michèle J.M. Wood; Chapter 2 What is palliative care?, Michèle J.M. Wood; Chapter 3 Art therapy in palliative care, Michèle J.M. Wood; Chapter 4 Some images of illness, Peter Kaye; Part II; Chapter 5 Getting started, Jackie Coote; Chapter 6 What lies within us, Gill Thomas; Chapter 7 The search for a model which opens, Camilla Connell; Chapter 8 Will the kitchen table do?, Simon Bell; Chapter 9 The story board, Sheila Mayo; Chapter 10 A narrow ledge, Ann Bartholomew; Chapter 11 The butterfly garden, Val Beaver; Chapter 12 The body as art, Michèle J.M. Wood; Chapter 13 The invisible injury, Mandy Pratt; Chapter 14 From psychiatry to psycho-oncology, Paola Luzzatto; Chapter 15 Sunbeams and icebergs, meteorites and daisies, Barbara Morley;
