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What Do You See?: Phenomenology of Therapeutic Art Expression.

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''The book has much to offer the open minded and eclectic art therapist who could adapt and use these ideas with a wide range of client groups in a variety of settings''. - Inscape.'Dr Betensky has made a significant contribution to the literature of art therapy...what she has done is to provide us, not only with the kinds of creative syntheses exemplified in her diagnostic, therapeutic, and research work; she has also introduced us, clearly and vividly, to the basic elements of symbolic expression in art - line, shape, colour, etc - and how they can be viewed from a phenomenological perspective. We would do well to adopt those of her techniques which seem relevant and adapt them as needed in the flexible manner of the author herself. And we would do very well to emulate the kind of scholarship, clarity and creative synthesis evident in this book, whatever form our own work eventually takes.'- from the Foreword
Part I Philosophical Orientation and Method. 1. About phenomenology for art therapy. 2. The phenomenological method of art therapy. Part II Symbolic Expression in Art Therapy. 3. Symbolic expression of line. 4. Symbolic expression of shape. 5. Symbolic expression of colour. 6. Additional aspects and modes of symbolic expression. Part III Expressive Qualities of the Scribble. 7. The scribble, annotated. 8. The scribble as art therapy treatment of anorexia. 9. A schizoid episode in scribbles. Part IV Art Expression for Art Therapy Diagnostics. 10. Diagnostic test batteries for children. 11. A diagnostic test battery for adolescents. Part V 12. Art expression by children under ultimate stress (Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-44).The Market: Art therapists, psychotherapists, and all those interested in the use and study of art therapy.
It feels like I am with her in the consultation room when she describes an episode with a patient. She is not just a technician. She is a professional, dealing with philosophy, past experience of other professionals and past history of the field, and her own history of work with patients.
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