Expressive Arts therapist and painter Ellen Levine, explores the nature of keeping creativity playfully alive in the studio and as a therapist. Stoke the fire. Institute required reading.

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Product Description

Exploring the arts in therapy, this book investigates the concept that creativity is an essential element of psychotherapy. A process of "tending the fire" of the arts in therapy allows play and experimentation to enter the therapeutic space and enlighten the experience for both client and therapist. Through the author's own personal art-making journal, an outlining of the aspects of the theory of creativity in the therapeutic process, and the author's practical application of expressive arts therapy in various clinical settings, this text demonstrates how forms of sensory and artistic expression can help clients arrive at surprising new possibilities in therapy and life.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #287270 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 190 pages

Review
Levine offers a host of new ideas that contribute to shaping the emerging vision of multidisciplinary expressive arts therapy. Beautiful... --Shaun McNiff, author of Art as Medicine: Creating a Therapy of the Imagination

This articulate teacher and experienced therapist speaks a passionate language that asserts a commitment to the creative process. --Paolo Knill, co-author of Minstrels of Soul: Intermodal Expressive Therapy

Shaun McNiff, author of Art as Medicine: Creating a Therapy of the Imagination
Levine offers a host of new ideas that contribute to shaping the emerging vision of multidisciplinary expressive arts therapy. Beautiful...

About the Author
Ellen G. Levine is a social worker at the Hincks-Dellcrest Centre for Children's Mental Health in Toronto, dean of independent studies and core faculty at the European Graduate School in Switzerland, cofounder and faculty member of ISIS-Canada, and coeditor of the book Foundations of Expressive Arts Therapy.