This new second edition of Attunement in Expressive Arts Therapy: Toward an Understanding of Embodied Empathy has been extensively revised. The book addresses how the arts can be applied therapeutically for mental, emotional and spiritual health. The therapeutic practices offer expanded ways of being attuned to emotional states and life conditions with individuals, relationships, groups, and communities. Specific topics include: the contexts of attunement in the arts and therapy, tuning in to embodied creative intelligence, attunement and improvisation, rhythm and resonance, and the sense of balance achieved through affective sensory states. Each chapter clearly articulates how to utilize the arts to tune in to self, other, and a larger sacred presence. The poignant stories from the author's 35 years as an artist and therapist allows the reader to experience how the arts have been used throughout history to maintain healthy physical, emotional and spiritual well-being. Spontaneity, heightened sensitivity to inner states, deep connectivity to self and other, and an awareness of energetic and embodied shifts in consciousness are explored. It will be an excellent resource for those interested in learning how to engage with individuals and communities in order to address complex life challenges. Table of Contents: Foreword by Laury Rappaport Foreword to the First Edition by Shaun McNiff Preface Preface to the First Edition Introduction Personal Experiences Sound and Rhythm Chapter One Contexts of Attunement in the Arts and Therapy Opening Doors for People with Autism through the Arts: A Research Project Notes from the Field Chapter Two Tuning In to Embodied Creative Intelligence Play and Artistic Intelligence Embodied Intelligence The Arts and Awakening Notes from the Field A Research Study Chapter Three Attunement and Improvisation: Embracing the Unknown, Rehearsals for Life Improvisation and Expressive Arts The Depth Psychology of Improvisation Notes from the Field #1 Rock and Roll at Danvers State Hospital #2 Drama at New England Medical Center #3 Free Jazz at the Berkeley College of Music Chapter Four Rhythm and Resonance: Deep Connections to Self, Other and Universal Consciousness Cymatics and Entrainment Research Entrainment and Express Arts Resonance Research in Interpersonal Rhythmic Attunement Mirror Neuron System Embodied Empathy Embodied Empathy and Expressive Arts Rhythm and Altered States of Consciousness Collective Rhythmic Resonance Notes from the Field #1 Rhythmic Rupture and Repair #2 Healing Collective Resonance in Belfast Chapter Five Attunement to Individual, Group and Community Trauma Research Application to Expressive Arts Notes from the Field #1 Individual Trauma #2 When Crisis Affects the Group and the Therapist #3 Art and Memory in Latin America #4 Working with Asylum Seekers in Juarez Mexico Chapter Six Tuning In References Index
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