A multi-modal approach to creative art therapy / Arthur Robbins.
By: Robbins, Arthur
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BookPublisher: London ; Bristol, Pa. : J. Kingsley, 1994Description: xiv, 386 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 1853022624.Subject(s): Art therapyDDC classification: 615.85156 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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Arthur Robbins has been a practising art therapist for many years, and is founder of the Pratt Graduate Art Therapy program, one of the first of its kind to introduce art therapy training in the United States. This new text recasts his early work within the framework of modern psychodynamic theory.
The underlying principle of the early works - the amalgamation of the creative and therapeutic processes in the belief that the facilitation of creativity improves psychological health - remains in this text, together with a thread of object-relations theory that intertwines with other models of treatment. There is also an emphasis on transference and countertransference, and a core belief that every art therapist must possess and develop the soul and sensitivity of an artist, thus valuing authenticity and maintaining a respect for the uniqueness of personal expression. This perception and understanding of the art form will aid the understanding of the entire personality organization of the patient.
In this text, diagnosis is not used for categorization, but to offer indications for possible treatment and so to develop a treatment plan. Some patients need the reinforcement of ego skills and defences, others need mirroring, and some need to deal with object loss and attachment. A creative art therapist should not be bogged down by cumbersome role definitions and should be willing to take the same sort of risks that the creative process requires. The creative intent of this text is to offer a structure that is not limited to one therapeutic model and to open up the doors for the creative art therapist to be effective with a wide range of patient populations.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Integrating the personal and theoretical splits in the struggle towards an identity as art therapist / Arthur Robbins -- Becoming an art therapist / Arthur Robbins -- Creativity development / Arthur Robbins -- The use of imagery / Arthur Robbins -- A creative arts approach to art therapy / Arthur Robbins -- The play of psychotherapeutic artistry and psychoaesthetics / Arthur Robbins -- Resistance in art therapy: A multi-modal approach to treatment / Arthur Robbins and Barbara Cooper -- Art Therapist and psychic healer: Description of a joint workshop / Arthur Robbins and Sandra Robbins --Clinical considerations / Arthur Robbins -- Art diagnosis / Arthur Robbins -- Diagnostic indicators in the artwork of borderline and dissociative patients / Mary D. Cole and Arthur Robbins -- Developing therapeutic artistry: A joint countertransference supervisory seminar/ Sone sculpting workshop / Arthur Robbins and Marc Erismann -- Countertransference and the art therapeutic process with borderline patients / Arthur Robbins -- Technique / Arthur Robbins -- Materials / Arthur Robbins -- Institutional issues / Arthur Robbins -- Clinical applications / Arthur Robbins -- Art therapy with a floating fortress / Linda Joan Brown -- Merger and separateness / Kristen 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 / Barbara Maciag.