Responding to the increased interest in the integration of expressive arts and ecotherapy, this book presents a nature-based approach to expressive arts work.It provides an overview of the two fields, emphasizing how they can enrich and learn from each other, and highlights attitudes and practices in expressive arts that are particularly relevant to working with nature. This includes cultivating an aesthetic response to the earth, the relationship between beauty and sustainability, ...

What are the basic attitudes, values, and practices that are essential for effective work with the expressive arts? This book explores the answer to that question.The authors examine in depth the concepts of 'presence' - a way of 'being' - and 'process' - an open and trusting way of working - in the professional helping relationship and in the making of art. They introduce readers to the premise of the 'uniqueness of persons' that underpins these ideas, and look at how to realize t...

The field of expressive arts is closely tied to the work of therapeutic change. As well as being beneficial for the individual or small group, expressive arts therapy has the potential for a much wider impact, to inspire social action and bring about social change.The book's contributors explore the transformative power of the arts therapies in areas stricken by conflict, political unrest, poverty or natural disaster and discuss how and why expressive arts works. They look at the w...

Poetry is increasingly used in therapy, and it already occupies a central place in expressive arts therapies. This book is the first to explicitly combine theory and practice from the field of expressive arts with poetry and poetics.The book offers both a guide and poetic encouragement for using poetry in expressive arts work. Within this arts context, poetry is offered as a way to create hope and confidence, providing clients with a platform for healing, reconciliation, problem so...

This collection reflects on the theory and application of expressive arts today in therapy, education, research and social and ecological change.Bringing the understanding of expressive arts into its contemporary theoretical framework, the book reveals the expansion of the field from its initial focus on therapy alone into a diverse range of other areas of interest to therapists, educators, researchers and those interested in working for social and ecological change. The book also ...

心理學在線性思考的限制下，文字的使用經常一成不變，連帶讓心靈療癒的工作失去了創造力與彈性。但從表達性藝術治療的觀點，跳脫線性框架，才能讓身心修復更進一步。本書的兩位作者——瑪戈．尼爾與莎莉．阿特金斯——同為表達性藝術治療的代表人物，他們承襲了感知互動取向創始人保羅．尼爾（Paolo J. Knill）的觀點，提倡以詩意創作來突破僵固思維，並在書中以自身詩歌創作為例，實證寫詩帶來的自我修復效果。這是第一本探討表達性藝術工作中詩歌創作的書，呈現如何用詩歌來強化復原力，並整合不同藝術形式來提升生活品質。閱讀本書，你會發現寫詩有「遠離中心」的特質，讓人在專注於創作的當下轉移注意力，感受平靜。書中也借鑑德國詩人朵敏創造的「儘管如此……」概念──儘管苦難當前，透過寫詩，我們仍能看到生命的其他出口。全書闡述了表達性藝術的理論、方式與步驟，對於使用表達性藝術於治療或教育輔導的專業工作者來說，是必備的引導指南。運用本書的實作方法，將喚醒、賦權並啟發每個人內心都有的、富創造性的詩意的能力，從此文字書寫不再是壓力，還帶來無盡的療癒力。

How to Survive Psychosis is a guidebook for anyone who has or has had psychosis and their supporters. The book is part-memoir, part tips for living with and surviving the condition of psychosis. How to Survive Psychosis gives 10 tips on how the author, Poppy Atkins survived 20 years of psychosis, also diagnosed as schizophrenia. She provides anecdotes from her early adult life, negotiating a career, dealing with the meaning of the often innocuous, adding poetry and resour...

Dancing embodies cultural history and beliefs, and each dance carries with it features of the place where it originated. Influenced by different social, political, and environmental circumstances, dances change and adapt. American dance evolved in large part through combinations of multiple styles and forms that arrived with each new group of immigrants. Perspectives on American Dance is the first anthology in over twenty-five years to focus exclusively on American dance practices...

Winner of the Holyer An Gof YA award 2022 and the 2022 Ann Trevenen Jenkin CupZed and her family move unwillingly form London to Cornwall to support her mother's mental health. Gradually the family falls apart and it is only when Zed realises the local Cormorants have something to do with the disasters that consume them, and that they are attempting to right an ancient wrong, that she and her sister Amy start working together to find a solution and call a truce.

Winner of the Holyer An Gof YA award 2022 and the 2022 Ann Trevenen Jenkin CupZed and her family move unwillingly form London to Cornwall to support her mother's mental health. Gradually the family falls apart and it is only when Zed realises the local Cormorants have something to do with the disasters that consume them, and that they are attempting to right an ancient wrong, that she and her sister Amy start working together to find a solution and call a truce.

From I, Coriander to Invisible in a Bright Light, Sally Gardner's first middle grade novel in 14 years soars with the imagination of a master story-teller. A pitch perfect, haunting story about a crystal chandelier shaped like a galleon that splinters into a thousand pieces, a girl abandoned as a baby on the steps of an opera house and a dangerous game called the Reckoning. It is 1870: opening night at the Royal Opera House in a freezing city by the sea, where a huge crystal chandelier in ...

Jonathan Coy stars as the much-married King in this unreliable Tudor history'A brilliant concept... does exactly what it says on the tin' The TimesFrom his tiny room at Hampton Court, the royal chronicler records the comings and goings of the King of England, his six Queens - and his six mothers-in-law. Introducing us to these redoubtable ladies, he relates the surprising part they played in the destiny of Henry VIII and h...