The Changing Shape of Art Therapy: New Developments in Theory and Practice (Arts Therapies)

With contributions from leading art therapists, this important book addresses the key issues in the theory and practice of art therapy. The fundamental significance of the art in art therapy practice permeates the book, close attention being paid by several writers to the art-making process and the aesthetic responses of therapist and client. Introduction, Andrea Gilroy and Gerry McNeilly1. Our Lady of the Queen: Journeys around the maternal object, Caroline Case, Scottish Institute of Human Relations, Edinburgh. 2. The triangular relationship and the aesthetic countertransference in analytical art psychotherapy, Joy Schaverien, art psychotherapist and Jungian analyst in private practice. 3. Back to the future: Thinking about theoretical developments in art therapy, Tessa Dalley, St Albans Child and Family Clinic. 4. The analytical art psychotherapy setting as a containing object in psychotic states, Katherine Killick, art psychotherapist and Jungian analyst in private practice. 5. Keeping the balance: Further thoughts on the dialectics of art therapy, Sally Skaife, Goldsmiths' College, University of London. 6. Failure in the group analytic setting, Gerry McNeilly, Birmingham University.7. Teachers, students, clients, therapists, researchers: Changing gear in experiential art therapy groups, Jane Dudley, Andrea Gilroy and Sally Skaife, Goldsmiths' College, University of London. References. Index.