Group Interactive Art Therapy: Its Use in Training and Treatment

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Illustrations vii
• Section I 1
• Chapter 1 - Groups and Art Therapy 5
• Chapter 2 - Interactive Group Psychotherapy 22
• Chapter 3 - Curative Factors in Groups 35
• Chapter 4 - Conducting an Interactive Art Therapy Group 42
• Chapter 5 - Practical Matters Materials and Rooms 51
• Chapter 6 - Using Themes or Projects Within an Interactive Model 59
• Chapter 7 - Short-Term Interactive Art Therapy Groups 73
• Chapter 8 - Group Interactive Art Therapy with Children and Adolescents 81
• Section II 91
• Introduction 93
• Case Example 1 - Rooms and Materials 95
• Case Example 2 - The Unwilling Participant(s 103

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Illustrations vii
• Section I 1
• Chapter 1 - Groups and Art Therapy 5
• Chapter 2 - Interactive Group Psychotherapy 22
• Chapter 3 - Curative Factors in Groups 35
• Chapter 4 - Conducting an Interactive Art Therapy Group 42
• Chapter 5 - Practical Matters Materials and Rooms 51
• Chapter 6 - Using Themes or Projects Within an Interactive Model 59
• Chapter 7 - Short-Term Interactive Art Therapy Groups 73
• Chapter 8 - Group Interactive Art Therapy with Children and Adolescents 81
• Section II 91
• Introduction 93
• Case Example 1 - Rooms and Materials 95
• Case Example 2 - The Unwilling Participant(s 103
• Case Example 3 - Developmental Processes in a Group Painting 107
• Case Example 4 - Life Processes in Small Group Environments 111
• Case Example 5 - Images of the Group 113
• Case Example 6 - Catharsis 117
• Case Example 7 - Power and Domination 120
• Case Example 8 - Splitting in the Group 126
• Case Example 9 - Expressing Anger Symbolically 130
• Case Example 10 - Example of a Theme Arising Spontaneously 133
• Case Example 11 - Boundary Violation and Scapegoating in a Training Group 136
• Case Example 12 - Working Through a Crisis 145
• Case Example 13 - Ending the Group 150
• Appendix 153
• Bibliography 155
• Name Index 159
• Subject Index 161