Group interactive art therapy : its use in training and treatment /

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158) and indexes.

SECTION I : Introducing group interactive art therapy Groups and art therapy -- Interactive group psychotherapy -- Curative factors in groups -- Conducting an interactive art therapy group -- Practical matters: materials and rooms -- Using themes or projects within an interactive model -- Short-term interactive art therapy groups -- Group interactive art therapy with children and adolescents. SECTION II : The model in practice: case examples -- Rooms and materials -- The unwilling participant(s): transference, countertransference, projective identification and all... Developmental processes in a group painting -- Life processes in small group environments -- Images of the group -- Catharsis -- Power and domination: clay workshops and sub-group themes -- Splitting in the group: forces of good and evil -- Expressive anger symbolically -- Example of a theme arising spontaneously -- Boundary violation and scapegoating in a training group -- Working through a crisis -- Ending the group: what to do with the images and objects.