Overview
In this volume, authors/editors Landgarten and Lubbers have assembled a group of practitioners to reveal the breadth and scope of adult art therapy. Drawing from work with physically and psychologically disabled adults, the first chapter, ""A Philosophy for Clinical Art Therapy"", presents a paradigm of six existential sources of anxiety and integrates them into the art therapy process. ""Suicide as an Abortive Life Stage of Development"" explores the relevance of adult art developmental theories of identity crisis and transitions to the study of suicide. ""Art Psychotherapy - An Approach to Borderline Adults"" presents a synthesized theory of borderline psychopathology along with implications for art psychotherapy. ""Treatment of Women with Eating Disorders"" describes the pioneering use of art therapy with this population. ""Mothers of Incestuously Abused Children in Group Art Therapy"" examines the catalytic effect of art directives in group work. ""Art Therapy with AIDS Patients"" explains the use of contrasting art tasks in helping patients to vent their intense emotional pain and to explore day-to-day coping methods and sources of life-extending support. ""Termination - Theory and Practice"" offers a concrete review of the factors that influence the last phase of treatment and explains the progression of body imagery drawings as analogous to emotional growth.
Full Product Details
Author: Helen B. Landgarten ,
Darcy Lubbers
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Brunner-Mazel Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.950kg
ISBN: 9780876305935
ISBN 10: 0876305931
Pages: 222
Publication Date: 01 July 1991
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Helen B. Landgarten pioneered art psychotherapy on the west coast. In 1967, as a senior staff member of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in the Family/Child Department of Psychiatry, she introduced the arts therapy modality for diagnosis and treatment. In 1974 the position of Coordinator of Art Psychotherapy was designated for her and she still serves in that capacity to this day. Darcy Lubbers is in private practice in Berverly Hills, California, working with individuals with a wide variety of presenting problems. She has had extensive experience in the treatment of eating disorders, and as early as 1982, she instituted art therapy as part of a treatment program at the Woodview Calabasas Psychiatric Hospital, Los Angeles.
