Drawing on her extensive experience as a creative arts therapist, Martina Schnetz puts forward a new approach to the process of art in healing. She explores the dialogue between the internal world, external images, and words, shaping a new vocabulary for creative arts therapists. The Healing Flow is a theoretical and experiential account of the author’s work with survivors of childhood trauma and post traumatic stress. Case studies are presented in this model. Through providing deeper insight into the creative processes, participants recover meaningful patterns in their lives, and restore connectedness between themselves and the world. -- from the publisher Table of Contents: List of Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Foreword, V. Darroch-Lozowski Foreword, David Wright. 1. Introduction to the Healing Flow: An Image Oriented Approach to Inquiry and Psychotherapy. 2. Interpretative Quilting as a Qualitative Approach to Inquiry. 3. The Nature of Truth in Interpretative Quilting. 4. Imagistic Pauses and the Dialogical Image/Word Process in Interpretative Quilting. 5. The Role of Contextual Factors in Interpretative Quilting. 6. Presenting Discoveries through Quilt Patches and Interpretive Stitching. 7. A Window: Entering the Art Therapy Room. 8. The Life of Images and the Healing Flow in the Clinical Context. 9. Sam’s Journey with the Healing Flow. 10. Mary’s Journey with the Healing Flow. 11. A View into the Activities in an Art Therapy Session. 12. Verbal Reflection Phase of the Healing Flow of Images and the Quality of the Dialogical Image/Word Process. 13. Transition Phase and Closing Ritual as a Container of the Healing Flow. 14. Final Stitching: Closure Ritual and the Transitional Function of the Dialogical Image/Word Process. References. Index. About the Author: Dr. Martina Schnetz brings extensive experiences to Schnetz Therapy and Creative Arts. Her foundation in Psychology, Education, Creative Arts therapy, and the practice of art itself enhances her ability to help individuals or groups of people with a variety of difficulties through psychotherapy, workshops and education in a creative and clinically sound manner. She completed her four year diploma in Fine Arts at the Ontario College of Art, Canada and studied one year in Florence, Italy. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Guelph in Psychology and Fine Arts. She completed her Masters of Arts in creative art therapy and her Doctor of Education in Counselling Psychology at OISE/University of Toronto and she completed her Level I Training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (E.M.D.R.). Dr. Martina Schnetz has also been working for the past thirteen years as a Creative Arts Therapist at the Homewood Health Centre, a psychiatric hospital in Guelph, Canada. Her doctoral research was focused on using an image-oriented psychotherapy and over the past ten years she has been able to develop and evaluate the Healing Flow Model and the dialogical image/word approach to psychotherapy through her research and clinical work at the Homewood Health Centre. Dr. Martina Schnetz was the recipient of the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, OISE Scholarship, Heinz Jordan Memorial Scholarship and the George A. Reid Scholarship. Dr. Martina Schnetz is a member of the following Professional Societies: Ontario Psychological Association. Canadian Psychological Association, Ontario Association of Counsellors, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists Read more at schnetztherapyandcreativearts.ca |