On Art and Therapy: An Exploration

by Martina Thomson (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $4.89

  The term art therapy was coined when it was recognized that painting, drawing and modelling had healing effects on people. The early practitioners saw themselves as facilitators in setting free a spontaneous inaginative activity. In this text the author makes a plea for the therapist to return to a trust in the therapeutic value of the creative process itself. Drawing on her memories of working with some of the pioneers of art therapy, and on her own experience as a painter and as an art therapy practitionar, her argument surfaces through observation, speculation, case history and quotations from artists, poets and analysts.

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  Paperback
  1989

  $9.68

  Using the fact that painting, drawing and modelling have healing effects on people, this book shows the role of the art therapist and how they should return to a trust in the therapeutic value of the creative process itself, rather than discussing the images produced. Drawing on her memories of working with E.M.Lydiatt, one of the pioneers, and on her own experience as a painter and as an art therapy practitioner, her argument includes observation, speculation, case history and quotation from artists, poets and psychoanalysts.