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'With increasing technological advances, health-care workers and clinical workers may find themselves increasingly drawn to hard-core science at the expense of their resources in the humanities. This excellent and timely book aims to redress this imbalance. It is focused particularly on medicine and psychiatry, but will speak to a far wider range of professionals, such as arts and occupational therapists. The book fills a widening gap, and anyone reading it will be enriched.' Journal of the Society of Medical Writers

'Tischler's handbook goes into more detail on a number of other approaches to using the arts to teach this topic. For example, in the chapter on drama and theatre arts, Tischler challenges the instructor to go beyond the use of role play and make use of drama and theatre to teach a concept; in other words, to teach about psychopathology. I am intrigued by the idea of creating a play over a number of class sessions where each student plays the role of someone with a psychiatric disorder. The students write and direct the project and the final product is filmed for further classroom discussion and reflection. I cannot think of a better way to teach a concept about mental health other than requiring the student to live, act and become the part, if only for a brief moment. In sum, I highly recommend this resource for all instructors of medicine, nursing and mental health to bring the topic of psychopathology alive for both our students and the clients they will be serving in the future.' Renee van der Vennet, Creative Arts Therapy Department, Nazareth College, US in Arts & Health: An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice 'The book is visually pleasant and finely edited. As described above, it is a comprehensive study with diverse forms of Art, which helps teachers, physicians and all interested in the subject to learn more about their favourite - or unexpected - way of expression. In a lecture by Professor Dinesh Bhugra, author of one the forewords of this book, he said that psychiatry could be seen as the more specifically human medical specialty, since it deals with the very thing that makes us different from other animals: the mind. The production of symbolic content, which sometimes (some would say very special times) takes the form of Art, is the way that this particular trait becomes perceivable. Art, therefore, might be the path linking our scientific appreciations and the immeasurable portion of what goes on in people's minds (including our own). This book is a fine guide for those willing to walk it.' Julio Xerfan, Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, International Journal of Social Psychiatry

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University of Nottingham, Division of Psychiatry- Behavioural Sciences, Queen's Medical centre, Nottingham

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