Artist, Therapist and Teacher is a compilation of writings taken from the author's 40 years of experience. The book is organized chronologically, earlier works are presented first and the most recent, last. Chapters include writings from particular years accompanied with commentaries by Chris Belkofer, Ph.D. that highlight their relevance to contemporary art therapy practices. Bruce L. Moon uses music, performance art, poetry, sports activities, visual art forms, and other task-oriented modalities to cultivate relationships with clients. His vision of art therapy work is intimately connected to creativity, artistic self-expression, and exploration of meaning. Based on the author's art therapy practice, his overwhelming sense is that art therapy is continually being reshaped and transformed. This sense of ongoing “re-creation” is connected to the foundation of art's healing power, which resides in the ability of art to constantly shift and find new forms of expression. Unique features include: social applications of the arts, art-based group therapy, art therapy education as performance, metaphor, artfully constructed narratives, and case vignettes. Further enhanced with 12 illustrations to completely clarify the vignettes discussed, this book is a call to art therapists to embrace the artistic dimensions of professional identity, and use creativity when presenting ideas about the discipline of art therapy. This book will be an excellent resource for art therapists, art lovers, artists, art educators, and other mental health professionals. --- from the publisher Contents: Introduction List of Illustrations Chapter I. VICTIMS, VILLAINS, AND HEROES (1983) Chapter II. SOCIAL APPLICATIONS OF THE ARTS (1987) Chapter III. THE CANVAS MIRROR: Images of Existential Art Therapy (1991) Chapter IV. PAINTING MY WAY HOME (1992) Chapter V. ART: Body and Soul (1993) Chapter VI. IMAGES AND WORDS: The use of poetry by Art Therapists (1997, 2003) Chapter VII. THE GATE IS NOT BURNING (1997) Chapter VIII. THE UNSPEAKABLE NATURE OF THE BEAST: Artistic Contagion in Art Therapy (2000) Chapter IX. POTION, PRESCRIPTION, POIESIS: The Role of Metaphor in Art Therapy (2005) Chapter X. YOU PAINT WHAT'S IN MY HEAD: Art Therapy With a Boy Who Hates Therapy (2006) Chapter XI. THIS TREE HAS NO ROOTS: Images of an abandoned adolescent (2006) Chapter XII. CATHETER ABLATION OF THE HEART OF ART THERAPY (2007) Chapter XIII. POETRY, PATHOLOGY, AND THE DECONSTRUCTION OF ART THERAPY ICONS (2008) Chapter XIV. YOWSA: The Existential Power of Therapist’s Delight (2009) Chapter XV. ART-BASED GROUP THERAPY: Theory and Method from Studio to Classroom (2010) Chapter XVI. NOTES FROM THE STUDIO: Always Respond, Never React (2011) Chapter XVII. IN SEARCH OF SILVER BULLETS AND THE HOLY GRAIL: Art Therapy Looking in all the Wrong Places (2012) 255 Chapter XVIII. ART THERAPY EDUCATION AS PERFORMANCE: The Aesthetics of Everything in Education (2012) Chapter XIX. THE SACRED ART OF COW TIPPING: Re-visioning Art Therapy Research (2012) Chapter XX. THE LONG-AWAITED DEMISE OF WOO-WOO: Reconsidering Clinical Art Therapy (2013) Chapter XXI. Epilogue 309 References Index About the Authors ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 1. No One’s Son Figure 2. The Last Log Figure 3. Planting Seeds Figure 4. Lapping and Overlapping Figure 5. My Bowl Figure 6. More Fire Figure 7. Empty Field Figure 8. Internship Painting Figure 9. Internship Painting (detail) Figure 10. Street Scene Figure 11. Self Portrait Figure 12. Projected Line Drawing
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