Adult Art Psychotherapy: Issues and Applications

ISBN-13: 9781138004788 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 223 str.

Helen B. Landgarten;Darcy Lubbers

Opis

In this volume, authors/editors Landgarten and Lubbers have assembled a group of practitioners to reveal the breadth and scope of adult art therapy. Drawing from work with physically and psychologically disabled adults, the first chapter, A Philosophy for Clinical Art Therapy, presents a paradigm of six existential sources of anxiety and integrates them into the art therapy process. Suicide as an Abortive Life Stage of Development explores the relevance of adult art developmental theories of identity crisis and transitions to the study of suicide. Art Psychotherapy - An Approach to Borderline Adults presents a synthesized theory of borderline psychopathology along with implications for art psychotherapy.

Spis treści

About the Editors, About the Contributors, Foreword, Introduction, Chapter 1 A Philosophy for Clinical Art Therapy, Chapter 2 Suicide as an Abortive Life Stage of Development, Chapter 3 Treatment of Women with Eating Disorders, Chapter 4 Art Psychotherapy: An Approach to Borderline Adults, Chapter 5 Mothers of Incestuously Abused Children in Group Art Therapy, Chapter 6 Art Therapy with AIDS Patients, Chapter 7 Termination: Theory and Practice, Index

O autorze

Helen B. Landgarten pioneered art psychotherapy on the west coast. In 1967, as a senior staff member of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in the Family/Child Department of Psychiatry, she introduced the arts therapy modality for diagnosis and treatment. In 1974 the position of Coordinator of Art Psychotherapy was designated for her and she still serves in that capacity to this day. Darcy Lubbers is in private practice in Berverly Hills, California, working with individuals with a wide variety of presenting problems. She has had extensive experience in the treatment of eating disorders, and as early as 1982, she instituted art therapy as part of a treatment program at the Woodview Calabasas Psychiatric Hospital, Los Angeles.