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Art Therapy books

Below are the best books we could find on Art Therapy.

Even when words are our preferred form of self-expression, sometimes our feelings are too deep, powerful, or painful to be expressed clearly. The act of artistic creation can empower us to feel and process deep emotion and communicate them to others without being held back by language or fear of direct confrontation. Whether we can’t find the right words to say or we can’t bear to say them, we can substitute colors, shapes, images, textures, and light to mimic or explore what we’re feeling in a safe, therapeutic setting.

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Art Therapy Sourcebook

Newly updated and revised, this authoritative guide shows you how to use art therapy to guide yourself and others on a special path of personal growth, insight, and transformation. Cathy A.

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Art Therapy for Anxiety and Depression

Art is becoming increasingly recognized for its therapeutic effects on our mental health. It is a technique that is helpful for people of all ages and is known to help improve the symptoms associated with anxiety and depression.

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Art Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul

The field of art therapy is discovering that artistic expression can be a powerful means of personal transformation and emotional and spiritual healing.

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Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy: Brain, Body, and Imagination in the Healing Process

From pioneering therapist Cathy A. Malchiodi, this book synthesizes the breadth of research on trauma and the brain and presents an innovative framework for treating trauma through the expressive arts.

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250 Brief, Creative & Practical Art Therapy Techniques: A Guide for Clinicians and Clients

Creative, fun & fast therapeutic warm-ups! When a client walks into the therapy room they don't know what to expect-feeling anxious, unsure and perhaps fearful.

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Essential Art Therapy Exercises: Effective Techniques to Manage Anxiety, Depression, and PTSD

Discover the healing power of art therapy The purposeful act of making art can be more than a creative outlet. It can also help individuals gain self-awareness, process difficult thoughts, and even ease the effects of past traumas.

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Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing: A Sensorimotor Art Therapy Approach to Bilateral Body Mapping

While art therapy traditionally focuses on therapeutic image-making and the cognitive or symbolic interpretation of these creations, Cornelia Elbrecht instructs readers how to facilitate the body-focused approach of guided drawing.

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Jung on Active Imagination

All the creative art psychotherapies (art, dance, music, drama, poetry) can trace their roots to C. G. Jung's early work on active imagination. Joan Chodorow here offers a collection of Jung's writings on active imagination, gathered together for the first time.

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Jungian Art Therapy: Images, Dreams, and Analytical Psychology

Jungian Art Therapy aims to provide a clear, introductory manual for art therapists on how to navigate Jung’s model of working with the psyche.

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Faces of Your Soul: Rituals in Art, Maskmaking, and Guided Imagery with Ancestors, Spirit Guides, and Totem Animals

In Faces of Your Soul, Elise Dirlam Ching and Kaleo Ching combine art and archetypes, meditation and acupressure, guided imagery, journaling, and many different creative processes in a collage of healing knowledge and wisdom.

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