The Arts Therapies : A Revolution in Healthcare

The separate arts therapies – drama, art, music and dance – are becoming available to increasing numbers of clients as mental health professionals discover their potential to reach and help people. But what are the arts therapies, and what do they offer clients? This fully updated new edition of __The Arts Therapies__ provides, in one volume, a guide to the different disciplines and their current practice and thinking in different parts of the world. Each chapter draws on a variety of perspectives and accounts to develop understandings of the relations between theory, research and practice, offering perspectives on areas such as the client-therapist-art form relationship or on outcomes and efficacy to help articulate and understand what the arts therapies can offer specific client groups. This new edition features ‘Focus on Research’ highlights from music therapy, art therapy, dramatherapy and dance movement therapy, which offer interviews with researchers in China, Africa, South America, Australia, Europe and North America, exploring significant pieces of enquiry undertaken within recent years. This comprehensive overview will be an essential text for students and practitioners of the arts therapies. It is international in scope, fully up-to-date with innovations in the field and will be relevant to new practitioners and those looking to deepen their understanding. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents PREFACE PART I Introductions Chapter 1 An introduction to The Arts Therapies: ten snapshots from the book PART II The arts therapies: definitions and developments Chapter 2 Definitions in flux: contexts and aims Introduction Arriving at definitions Settings and contexts: an overview Different modalities Chapter 3 What is art therapy? Definitions Aims of art therapy Chapter 4 What is music therapy? Definitions Aims of music therapy Chapter 5 What is dramatherapy? Definitions Aims of dramatherapy Chapter 6 What is dance movement therapy? Definitions Aims of dance movement therapy Chapter 7 Between the arts therapies Introduction: differences and similarities How different is different? How similar is similar? Arts therapies and arts in health Professional identity Conclusion: from definition to exploration PART III Backgrounds, histories and encounters: from the first happening to the shadow of logic Chapter 8 From the first happening Introduction: different histories Focus on Research: music therapy and Nigeria Interview with Charles O. Aluede The first happening and Black Mountain College Theatre Piece No. 1 Conclusion Chapter 9 'Everything is ripe' Introduction: many places Conference of the Society for Music Therapy and Remedial Music, 1960 Transitions Professions Interview with Ka Kit Lai, Amber Chan Hiu Wing, Adeline Chan Ling Hin and Fontane Yiu Conclusion Chapter 10 Art and science: the rise of the medical model and the shadow of logic Introduction: opposites attracting? Kinds of dialogue Shadow of logic ? Conclusion: revolution or collusion? PART IV Agents of transformation: arts, therapy, play Chapter 11 The arts in the arts therapies Introduction: arts and therapy Situating the arts in the arts therapies Starting out Therapeutic improvisation Creation of an arts space Case examples Focus on Research: dialogue with new arts languages and cultures Interview with Nancy C. Choe Forms for feeling: improvisation and culture The art form and the triangle Experience of the client and meaning Expressive forms of the arts Does the art form matter? Conclusion Chapter 12 The sensuous encounter: the arts therapies and the unconscious Introduction: the unconscious – definitions and encounters Analytic perspective Artists and the unconscious The dynamic unconscious How do the arts therapies position the unconscious? Arts therapies practice and the unconscious A particular messenger: uncloaking, excavation and the unconscious Arts process and non-verbal experience Emotional encounter Dynamic relationship Play space and the unconscious A dictionary of the unconscious? Focus on Research: art therapy Interview with Josée Leclerc Conclusion Chapter 13 Playing, development and change Introduction: definitions and theories of play What is play? The arts therapies and play The play space Playing and playfulness The play shift Play and development Conclusion Chapter 14 From the triangular relationship to the active witness: core processes in the arts therapies Introduction Artistic projection The triangular relationship Perspective and distance Embodiment Non-verbal experience Play and the playful space The participating artist-therapist Active witnessing Conclusion PART V Client–therapist relationship: paradigms, dialogues and discoveries Chapter 15 Client and arts therapist: dialogues and diversity Introduction Cultures and contexts Client–therapist transaction Roles of the arts therapist Therapist and client Arts therapy relationships: dialogue and discovery Arts therapists and clients Dialogue with analytic psychotherapy Elizabeth: aims of the dance movement therapy Elizabeth: method and the client–therapist relationship Case example analysis A psychoanalytic framework and the arts therapies: critiques and limitations Dialogue with a developmental approach to therapy Sophie: method and the client–therapist relationship Sophie: aims of the music therapy Case example analysis Developmental approach and the arts therapies: critiques and limitations Dialogue with a mindfulness approach to therapy Focus on Research: the Inhabited Studio Interview with Debra Kalmanowitz and Rainbow Ho The Inhabited Studio: method and the client–therapist relationship Amiin: aims of the therapy Case example analysis Mindfulness and the arts therapies: critiques and limitations Dialogue with different therapeutic paradigms compared Why the diversity? An arts therapies approach versus approaches related to other disciplines Chapter 16 Client and arts therapist: traditions and discoveries Introduction Role of the arts therapist: therapist and client, artist and artist together Traditions, assumptions, discoveries Focus on Research: dance/movement therapy, resilience and recovery Interview with David Alan Harris Focus on Research: long-term music therapy with young adults with severe learning difficulties Interview with Mercedes Pavlicevic Conclusion Chapter 17 Efficacy: what works in the art gallery? What works in the clinic? Introduction What works in the art gallery? What works in the clinic? Approaches, contexts and efficacy What is looked at and who is looking? The arts therapies and efficacy: flying with two wings? The arts therapies: a range of encounters Ways of working: considering the effects of the arts therapies Example 1: Client voice and an ecosystemic approach: Focus on Research Interview with Kim Dunphy and Tessa Hens Example 2: Art therapy review of pictures Example 3: Randomised control trial Example 4: Collaboration between disciplines: Focus on Research Interview with Daniel Mateos-Moreno and Lidia Atencia-Doña A 'researching eye'? Conclusion Chapter 18 Concluding remarks BIBLIOGRAPHY AUTHOR INDEX SUBJECT INDEX "The separate arts therapies - drama, art, music and dance - are becoming available to increasing numbers of clients as mental health professionals discover their potential to reach and help people. But what are the arts therapies, and what do they offer clients? This fully updated new edition of The Arts Therapies provides, in one volume, a guide to the different disciplines and their current practice and thinking in different parts of the world. Each chapter draws on a variety of perspectives and accounts to develop understandings of the relations between theory, research and practice, offering perspectives on areas such as the client-therapist-art form relationship or on outcomes and efficacy to help articulate and understand what the arts therapies can offer specific client groups. This new edition features 'Focus on Research' highlights from music therapy, art therapy, drama therapy and dance movement therapy, which offer interviews with researchers in China, Africa, South America, Australia, Europe and North America, exploring significant pieces of enquiry undertaken within recent years. This comprehensive overview will be an essential text for students and practitioners of the arts therapies. It is international in scope, fully up-to-date with innovations in the field and will be relevant to new practitioners and those looking to deepen their understanding."--Quatrième de couverture "The separate arts therapies - drama, art, music and dance - are becoming available to increasing numbers of clients as mental health professionals discover their potential to reach and help people. But what are the arts therapies, and what do they offer clients? This fully updated new edition of The Arts Therapies provides, in one volume, a guide to the different disciplines and their current practice and thinking in different parts of the world. Each chapter draws on a variety of perspectives and accounts to develop understandings of the relations between theory, research and practice, offering perspectives on areas such as the client-therapist-art form relationship or on outcomes and efficacy to help articulate and understand what the arts therapies can offer specific client groups. This new edition features 'Focus on Research' highlights from music therapy, art therapy, drama therapy and dance movement therapy, which offer interviews with researchers in China, Africa, South America, Australia, Europe and North America, exploring significant pieces of enquiry undertaken within recent years. This comprehensive overview will be an essential text for students and practitioners of the arts therapies. It is international in scope, fully up-to-date with innovations in the field and will be relevant to new practitioners and those looking to deepen their understanding"-- Provided by publisher