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Arguing that the profession of arts therapy has its roots in the studio environment, the author proposes that it is time to reclaim these rots, and make art once again central to art therapy. She suggests that there has been a tendency for art therapy not merely to interact and be enriched by other perspectives but to be subsumed by them. for this reason she makes a clear distinction between using art in one's practice of therapy, and working from an art-based model. This book presents a model of art therapy where the products and processes of art constitute the core of the model rather than serving as the impetutus for adaptions of other theories of counselling or therapy. It addresses how an arts-based approach can inform the therapist in all aspects of practice, form the conception of the work and the attempt to understand client needs to inteacting with clients and communicating with others about others about the profession of art therapy.

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The main concerns of this book are that art therapy has been subsumed in other healing practices and that it is time for art therapy to be reclaimed once more for what it should be, a practice based on the products and processes of art. The author argues that the original spirit of studio art therapy must have a place in the development of current art therapy practices. -- Arts Research Digest

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Catherine Hyland Moon, MA, ATR is an art therapist with twenty years' experience in the mental health field. She is currently on the faculty of Marywood University's Graduate Art Therapy Program in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She also has a private practice in art therapy based in a community art gallery in Scranton. Her recent work has focused on performance art, installation art and the incorporation of found objects in painting.

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