Home Is Where the Art Is: An Art Therapy Approach to Family Therapy
Автор:Doris Banowsky Arrington Год: 2001 Издание:Charles C. Thomas Publisher Страниц: 266 ISBN: 0398071616 This work reflects the author’s three decades of clinical practice with children and their families, and adults and their families. Written for students and professionals, this book integrates the two approaches: art therapy and family systems. Although much has been written on art therapy and much, much more literature exists on family therapy, few integrate the two theoretical approaches. The structure of this book reflects the author’s personal approach to art. Her art media are painting and combining found objects. The overall theme of family can quickly be seen within it, but this theme is overlaid with art, archetypal patterns and meanings, and symbolic enactments. It is also interfaced with personality development, and in this “era of the brain,” with neurobiological research. The introduction begins with a brief introduction to Randy and his Dad and Stepmother. Chapter Two begins with the question: “What is a family?” Chapter Three introduces the reader to the “Cycle of Love”...
