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Art therapy and political violence : with art, without illusion /

Contributor(s): Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.Description: xviii, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781583919569
  • 1583919562 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RC489.A7 A768 2005
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Contents:
Foreword / Shaun McNiff -- Preface / Diane Waller -- Prologue : with art, without illusion / Debra Kalmanowitz and Bobby Lloyd -- Introduction / Debra Kalmanowitz and Bobby Lloyd -- 1. Art therapy and political violence / Debra Kalmanowitz and Bobby Lloyd -- 2. Political violence, trauma and mental health interventions / Renos K. Papadopoulos -- 3. 'The moment in and out of time' : reflections on context and timing in art therapy interventions in Kosovo / Anna Kalin and Julie Murphy -- 4. Feast of colour : creating something out of very little - art making as psychosocial intervention with children of a forgotten war, Sudan / Miriam Nabarro -- 5. From dark black to bright pink : the power of art expression and creation in coping with life under threat, Israel 2001-2002 / Tamar Hazut -- 6. Inside the portable studio : art therapy in the former Yugoslavia 1994-2002 / Debra Kalmanowitz and Bobby Lloyd -- 7. Creativity from chaos : an art therapist's account of art work produced in the aftermath of a bombing in her community, Omagh, Northern Ireland / Imelda McGeehan -- 8. A time for healing : art therapy for children, post September 11, New York / Stephanie Wise -- 9. Expressive arts therapy - healing the traumatized : the Palestinian experience / Rajiah Abu Sway, Rana Nashashibi, Remal Salah and Reema Shweiki -- 10. Transforming objects in a transforming South Africa / Hayley Berman -- 11. A soldier's story : an art therapy intervention in Sri Lanka / Siobhan McElroy -- 12. Silence in exile : a case study of an adolescent asylum seeker in London / Diana Brandenburger -- 13. Art therapy and trauma, a different setting, a different approach : interventions in the Netherlands and former Yugoslavia / Truus Wertheim-Cahen -- Epilogue / Debra Kalmanowitz and Bobby Lloyd.
Review: "Art Therapy and Political Violence brings together contributions from Northern Ireland, former Yugoslavia, Israel, the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza, Sri Lanka, Sudan, the Netherlands, USA, South Africa and the UK. It addresses the role that art making and art therapy has in supporting individuals, families and communities in coping with their experiences of political violence. Written from diverse theoretical backgrounds, contributions include clinical examples and images which vividly illustrate some of the central themes of this work."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Shaun McNiff -- Preface / Diane Waller -- Prologue : with art, without illusion / Debra Kalmanowitz and Bobby Lloyd -- Introduction / Debra Kalmanowitz and Bobby Lloyd -- 1. Art therapy and political violence / Debra Kalmanowitz and Bobby Lloyd -- 2. Political violence, trauma and mental health interventions / Renos K. Papadopoulos -- 3. 'The moment in and out of time' : reflections on context and timing in art therapy interventions in Kosovo / Anna Kalin and Julie Murphy -- 4. Feast of colour : creating something out of very little - art making as psychosocial intervention with children of a forgotten war, Sudan / Miriam Nabarro -- 5. From dark black to bright pink : the power of art expression and creation in coping with life under threat, Israel 2001-2002 / Tamar Hazut -- 6. Inside the portable studio : art therapy in the former Yugoslavia 1994-2002 / Debra Kalmanowitz and Bobby Lloyd -- 7. Creativity from chaos : an art therapist's account of art work produced in the aftermath of a bombing in her community, Omagh, Northern Ireland / Imelda McGeehan -- 8. A time for healing : art therapy for children, post September 11, New York / Stephanie Wise -- 9. Expressive arts therapy - healing the traumatized : the Palestinian experience / Rajiah Abu Sway, Rana Nashashibi, Remal Salah and Reema Shweiki -- 10. Transforming objects in a transforming South Africa / Hayley Berman -- 11. A soldier's story : an art therapy intervention in Sri Lanka / Siobhan McElroy -- 12. Silence in exile : a case study of an adolescent asylum seeker in London / Diana Brandenburger -- 13. Art therapy and trauma, a different setting, a different approach : interventions in the Netherlands and former Yugoslavia / Truus Wertheim-Cahen -- Epilogue / Debra Kalmanowitz and Bobby Lloyd.

"Art Therapy and Political Violence brings together contributions from Northern Ireland, former Yugoslavia, Israel, the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza, Sri Lanka, Sudan, the Netherlands, USA, South Africa and the UK. It addresses the role that art making and art therapy has in supporting individuals, families and communities in coping with their experiences of political violence. Written from diverse theoretical backgrounds, contributions include clinical examples and images which vividly illustrate some of the central themes of this work."--BOOK JACKET.

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