ARTS MANAGEMENT

ART THERAPY
"The process of art therapy is based on the recognition that man's most fundamental thoughts and feelings, derived from the unconscious, reach expression in images rather than words" Naumberg, 1958.


ART THERAPY JOURNALS
** International Journal of Art Therapy: Inscape
** Journal of the American Art Therapy Association
** Psychotherapy in Australia



Grief unseen: healing pregnancy loss through the arts
Laura Seftel
618.39206515 SEF
Grief Unseen explains the different kinds of childbearing losses, such as failed fertility treatment, ectopic pregnancy, and stillbirth, and explores their emotional impact on women and their partners, and the process of healing. An established art therapist and mental health counselor, Laura Seftel shares her own experiences of miscarriage and recovery, and describes the use of art and ritual as a response to loss in traditional and modern cultures.



Love's executioner & other tales of psychotherapy
Irvin D. Yalom
616.8914 YAL
This collection of 10 absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos and humour at the heart of the therapeutic encounter. In recounting his patients' dilemmas, Yalom not only gives us a rare & enthralling glimpse into their personal desires & motivations but also tells us his own story as he struggles to reconcile his all-too-human responses with his sensibility as a psychiatrist.



Researching the art therapies: a dramatherapist's perspective
Roger Grainger
616.8515072 GRA
Writing from a dramatherapist's perspective, Roger Grainger looks at methods of researching the arts therapies, and how particular definitions of research affect our understanding and practising of arts therapies. He places approaches to research in four categories: quantitative research (which seeks to demonstrate), qualitative research (which explains by describing), action research (which explains by experiencing) and art-based research (which aims to document in an appropriate language, in this case art).



Self-mutilation and art therapy: violent creation
Diana Milia
616.8582 MIL
Diana Milia examines the effect of art therapy interventions with clients who harm their bodies. Her starting point is the definition of self-mutilation itself. In many cultures, self-mutilation is incorporatedin sacrificial rituals as a means of healing the whole society. Body modifications such as scarification and tattooing are used in rites of purification, healing and maturity. Self-mutilation may also be incorporated in performance art.



The first relationship: infant & mother
Daniel N. Stern
155.4228 STE
Daniel Stern's pathbreaking video-based research into the intimate complexities of mother-infant interaction has had an enormous impact on psychotherapy and developmental psychology. His minute analyses of the exchanges between mothers and babies have offered empirical support and correction for many theories of development. In the complex and instinctive choreography of "conversations," including smiles, gestures, and gazing, Stern discerned patterns of both emotional harmony and emotional incongruity that illuminate children's relationships with others in the larger world.



Trauma and Recovery: the aftermath of violence-from domestic abuse to political terror
Judith Herman, M.D
616.85 HER
From the Introduction: THE ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable. Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried. Equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work. Folk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told.