Art in Action (eBook)

Expressive Arts Therapy and Social Change

Ellen G. Levine, Stephen K. Levine (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
240 Seiten
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-85700-270-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The book's contributors explore the transformative power of the arts therapies in areas stricken by conflict and discuss how and why expressive arts works. They look at the ways it can be used to engage community consciousness and improve social conditions whilst taking into account the issues that arise within different contexts and populations.

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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 ways it can be used to engage community consciousness and improve social conditions whilst taking into account the issues that arise within different contexts and populations. Leading expressive arts therapy practitioners give inspiring accounts of their work, from using poetry as a tool in trauma intervention with Iraqi survivors of war and torture, to setting up storytelling workshops to aid the integration of Ethiopian Jewish immigrants in Israel.Offering visionary perspectives on the role of the arts in inspiring change at the community or social level, this is essential reading for students and practitioners of creative and expressive arts therapies, as well as psychotherapists, counsellors, artists and others working to effect social change.

Inhalt

Introduction. Part I: Principles. Poiesis and the Aesthetics of Social Change, Stephen K. Levine. Expressive Arts and Social Change: Have We Gone Beyond Therapy?, Ellen G. Levine. The Capacity of Expressive Arts to Facilitate Change: A Human Imperative, Karen Estrella. Communal Art Making and Conflict Management: The Art Experience as a Resource for a Meditation-focused Discourse, Paolo Knill. Dark Aspects of Creation: The Alchemy of Imagination, Shaun McNiff. Part II: Issues. Trauma and Performance: Constructing Meaning After Tragedy - The Theater of Witness, Jack Saul. A Social-critical Reading of Indigenous Women's Art: The Use of Visual Data to 'Show', Rather than 'Tell', of the Intersection of Different Layers of Oppression, Ephrat Huss. Inside and Outside: The Collision Between Internal and External Worlds in Contexts of Political Violence and Social Change, Debra Kalmanowitz and Bobby Lloyd. Toward a New Understanding of the Effectiveness of the Arts Therapies in the Treatment of PTSD: A Poetic, Neuropsychological Approach, Mooli Lahad. A Wu Wei of Social Change: Some Thoughts on Relational Aesthetics Under Unlikely Circumstances, Sabine Silberberg. Listening to the Voice of Victims: The Healing Power of Poetry in Contexts of Torture and War, Shanee Stepakoff. Part III: Projects. The Choreography of Absence: (In)habiting the Imagination After War in Sierra Leone, Carrie MacLeod. Creating Space for Change: The Use of Expressive Arts with Vulnerable Children and Women Prisoners in Sub-Saharan Africa, Gloria Simoneaux. Beauty in the Rough Places: Expressive Arts Responses to Critical Incidents in Darfur, Karen Abbs. The Child in the Street: Expressive Arts in Bolivia, Sally Atkins. Owning the Unknown: The Metamorphosis of The Children's Expressive Arts Project at Bard College, Susanna Armbruster. A Voice in the Scene of Chaos:  Expressive Arts and Social Practice within the Peruvian Context, TAE Peru (Judith Alalu, Jose Miguel Calderon, Ximena Maurial, Monica Prado, Pilar Souza, Martin Zavala). Rising From the Depths: Lesley University's Experience in Using the Expressive Arts as a Tool to Integrate Ethiopian Jewish Immigrants in Nes Ziona, Israel, Vivien Markow-Speiser and Samuel Schwartz.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Arts Therapies
• Reihe/Serie: Arts Therapies
• Reihe/Serie: Arts Therapies
• Co-Autor: Jose Miguel Calderon, Karen Estrella, Dr Ephrat Huss, Samer Hussein, Debra L. Kalmanowitz, Paolo J. Knill, Bobby Lloyd, Carrie MacLeod, Vivien Marcow-Speiser, Ximena Maurial, Shaun McNiff, Insherah Musa, Monica Prado, Samuel Schwartz, Gloria Simoneaux, Shanee Stepakoff, Martin Zavala, Karen Abbs, Maysa Al-Hmouz, Eman Al-Houdali, Mariam Al-Salahat, Judith Alalu, Moath Asfoor, Sally Atkins
• Nachwort: MaryBeth Morand
• Vorwort: Michelle LeBaron
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Ergotherapie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: artists • community consciousness • conflict • Counsellors • Creative arts • Intervention • natural disaster • political unrest • Populations • Poverty • Psychotherapists • Storytelling • Trauma • war
• ISBN-10: 0-85700-270-8 / 0857002708
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85700-270-9 / 9780857002709