Main description:

* A distinctive feature of the publication is its international representation. The book will include writers from France, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, UK and USA. The publication thus catches and celebrates cultural distinctiveness, while also presenting shared intercultural developments in the profession.

* With its global perspective on the arts therapies and its focus on contemporary issues and new initiatives, it will be of interest and relevance not only to those in the arts therapeutic community, but also to a broader audience in related professions - for instance psychology, sociology, the arts, medicine, health and wellbeing and education.

* University and professional education and training continue to grow across the world at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Most university programmes are set at Masters level. There is increasing research at Doctorate level and there is a strengthening and concentrated emphasis on building the evidence base of the field.

Contents:

Biographies

Acknowledgements

Preface

Chapter 1- On the unknown that art addresses: Space, vacuum and awareness in the arts

Marian Lopez Fdz. Cao

Chapter 2- Educating the Quixotic imagination

Robert D. Romanyshyn

Chapter 3- Changing truths: Deconstructing and reconstructing the elusive in art therapy

Uwe Herrmann

Chapter 4- Dramatherapy and materiality

Richard Hougham, Bryn Jones

Chapter 5- The dramatic self paradigm: Human nature from a dramatherapist's perspective

Salvo Pitruzzella

Chapter 6- Aesthetics of connection in the performance of lived experience

Jean-Francois Jacques

Chapter 7- Intercultural art therapy - the search for an inner home

Irit Belity

Chapter 8- Samagama - Dialogues on the development of professional creative arts therapy practice, research and training from India

Oihika Chakrabarti, Tripura Kashyap, Maitri Gopalakrishna, Nina Cherla

Chapter 9- Trust, art therapy and care: An art therapy experience at three community health centres

Ana Serrano Navarro, Tania Ugena Candel, Andrea Lopez Iglesias

Chapter 10- Dance movement therapy for couples: Disclosing multiple truths in the relationship

Einat Shuper Engelhard, Maya Vulcan

Chapter 11- Working psychoanalytically with clients with learning disability: the real giants we face: A long-term music therapy with an adopted girl with significant multiple disabilities

Joy Gravestock

Chapter 12- What are we talking about?: Development of an empirical base for art therapy with children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders

Celine Schweizer

Chapter 13- When the boat doesn't dare to set sail: Working with trust issues in children

Sibylle Cseri