The mystery of Art Therapy is demystified in this book as the author
offers an illuminating glimpse into her therapy practice. The author
is deeply immersed in her own creative process and the respect,
delicacy, and understanding that she provides her clients shines
through. The poems embrace the painful aspects of her clients’ lives
and show how by working skillfully and creatively with trauma, abuse
and mental illness, her clients move forward into joy, well-being and
wholeness. Her poetic reflections move us to appreciate how art can be
used as an instrument of transformation by travelling through
landscapes where words cannot go. “Art is unique in its ability to
embrace and communicate complex, deep, and subtle aspects of emotional
experience. And often the best way to reflect upon and understand
these artistic processes is to respond to them with more, in the same
medium or a different one. Karen Wallace convincingly does both in
There Is No Need to Talk about This: Poetic Inquiry from the Art
Therapy Studio. Artistic expressions and images are apt to be a few
steps ahead of the analytic mind’s way of sorting things out. As an
art therapist, she responds to visual imagery and studio environment
by writing poems. Aligned with how perception and sensibility work,
this language arguably offers a fuller sense of multifaceted processes
of arts therapy than conventional clinical narratives. Poems hold
contradictions, pare down excess verbiage, distill seeds, and
‘speak/The thoughts of humanness that mattered.’ This book will
help therapists and researchers gain a more complete comprehension of
their work and do something creative and life enhancing with the
feelings it generates in them – living the process themselves as the
most reliable way to bring it to others.” – Shaun McNiff is Lesley
University’s first University Professor and author of many books
including Imagination in Action: Secrets forUnleashing Creative
Expression and Art as Research “Karen Wallace’s There Is No Need
to Talk about This: Poetic Inquiry from the Art Therapy Studio is a
profoundly moving work, therapeutic, evocative, wise, tender, feeling.
It is painfully evocative in its words and imagery. There are lessons
here for any reader who has ever had to look deeply into the darkness
that lurks beneath the traumas of daily life. Karen Wallace teaches
all of how to heal, how to love, how to move forward with dignity, and
courage.” – Norman Denzin, Professor Emeritus of Sociology,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Editor of Qualitative
Inquiry and International Review of Qualitative Research “Our son
Connor has autism and he saw Karen Wallace for art therapy for several
years as a teen. Once he said, ‘Karen is the only one who
understands me.’ She worked through many issues with him and helped
us as parents decode his obsession with monsters. This book provides a
glimpse into the genuine caring that Karen Wallace feels for every
client lucky enough to see her.” – Kellie Garrett, ACC, MC, ICD.D,
Speaker ~ Coach ~ Strategist
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9789463000017
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
SensePublishers
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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