Using the Creative Arts in Therapy is a lucid, readable and practical introduction to the uses of arts and other creative processes to promote health and encourage healing, especially self-healing. The contributors, all creative specialists with extensive experience of working in education, describe in practical detail their work in the fields of folklore and ritual, the visual arts, music, dance, puppetry and storytelling. Widely recognised as the standard introductory text on creative therapy, this new edition takes account of fresh developments within creative therapy and provides an invaluable source of ideas and activities.