Creative therapy / Expressive therapies Books
Rudolf Steiner Press Fundamentals of Artistic Therapy Founded Upon
Book SynopsisBased on many years of medical, artistic, therapeutic and anthroposophical experience, the author presents a concentrated foundation for the development of artistic therapy and the training of therapists. Although written with the painting therapist in mind, this clearly-formulated book - the fundamental work in its field - will also be of interest to those involved in medical and general therapeutic work, as well as to serious students of anthroposophy. It includes fifty full-colour examples from Hauschka's course at the School for Artistic Therapy. MARGARETHE HAUSCHKA (1896-1980) studied Medicine in Munich and worked as a doctor at the Ita Wegman Clinic, where she had responsibility for artistic therapy and helped develop Rhythmical Einreibungen, a method of rhythmical massage. After marrying Rudolf Hauschka, she worked at the Biologischen Hospital in Hollriegelskreuth. From 1950, she devoted herself to course and seminar activity, and in 1962 she founded the School for Artistic Therapy and Massage in Boll, Germany.
£18.00
The Mercier Press Ltd Dancing The Rainbow: Holistic Well-Being Through Movement
Book SynopsisHave you ever sat in the audience but wished you were on the stage? Or maybe you are a naturally creative person but sometimes you feel blocked or find it hard to keep going? If you ever breathed in with joy when you saw a particular colour, like the colour of the gorse or the sea, and would like to recapture that feeling and build on it, this book is for you. It will help you to become fitter in body and soul, to slow down your thinking and worrying and inhabit your body with more passion and ease. Lani O’Hanlon brings the creative and healing arts together in Dancing the Rainbow. It includes the story of how movement and dance transformed her life when she started to use dance to heal the trauma in her own body, and her book sets out to also transform the reader’s life through dance. With easy to follow illustrations throughout, it uses tried and tested methods to unlock creative potential in a way that is in balance with the body’s rhythm and with the rhythm of the Earth.
£15.19
John Wiley & Sons Inc Dealing with Difficulities in Rational Emotive
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the manifold difficulties that both client and therapist bring to Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT). It offers ways of tackling difficulties that will assist their resolution and thereby help to build a productive and less stressful therapeutic relationship.Table of ContentsClient Difficulties. Buidling a Therapeutic Alliance. Accepting The abc Model. Establishing Goals. Carrying out Tasks. A Process-orientated View of client Difficulties. Therapist Difficulties. Forming and Maintaining a therapeutic Alliance. Teaching or Accepting The ABC Model. Therapist Tasks. A compendium of Therapist Problems. A Process-orientated View of Therapist difficulties.
£41.36
John Wiley & Sons Inc Promoting Health Through Creativity: For
Book SynopsisThis book is about redefining the value to health of creativity. Creativity derives from biological changes during human evolution as a tool that is needed for survival. The successful use of creativity generates feelings of pleasure and self-esteem that are beneficial to health. In particular, it can help depression. Current values do not give adequate importance to creativity, and the author challenges these values in this book. The book contains contributed chapters on a theory of creativity as an innate capacity, the therapeutic benefits of creativity, factors that encourage or inhibit creativity and current research on these, and accounts of creativity both as individual projects and as groupwork.Table of ContentsContributors. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. Chapter 1 Promoting Health Through Creativity - an Introduction. (Therese Schmid). Chapter 2 A Theory of creativity - an Innate Capacity. (Therese Schmid). Chapter 3 Occupational Genesis - Creativity and Health. (Estelle B. Breines). Chapter 4 The Therapeutic Benefits of Creativity. (Jennifer Creek). Chapter 5 Factors That Encourage or Inhibit creativity. (Frances Reynolds). Chapter 6 The Effects of Creativity on Physical and Psychological Well-being. (Frances Reynolds). Chapter 7 Individual Accounts on The Effect of Creative Activity on health and well-being. (Compiled and edited by Therese Schmid). Chapter 8 Integrating The firelight of Creativity. Sally Denshire). Chapter 9 Group Projects - Experiences and Outcomes of creativity. (Compiled and edited by Therese Schmid). Chapter 10 What is to be Done? (Therese Schmid). Index.
£50.36
Barcelona Publishers Culture Centered Music Therapy
Book SynopsisOffers an in-depth exploration of taking culture-inclusive perspectives for practice, theory, and research in music therapy. It outlines premises for the argument; highlights how culture-centred music therapy may be practiced; discusses implications for describing and understanding music therapy; and suggests approaches to music therapy research within a culture-centred context.
£39.92
Inner City Books The Secret World of Drawings: A Jungian Approach
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£15.20
Taylor & Francis Ltd Creative Storytelling with Children at Risk
Book SynopsisThis second edition is fully updated and addresses ways in which we can apply stories and storytelling with children who are troubled.Stories can empower children to take action and ask for help, including help with changes and life-plans. Stories provide a secure structure with endings and closure. The book develops the following topics: Stories for assessment Stories for understanding emotions Stories for exploring the senses Stories for managing loss Stories for ritual and drama There are new and revised stories, in particular addressing trauma and abuse. This book is written for all those people with the welfare of children as their priority.Trade Review"This thought-provoking volume demonstrates, through good explanations of theory and examples of practice, the potential power of stories and storytelling when supporting vulnerable children." - Helen Curran, senior lecturer in SEN at Bath Spa University.Table of ContentsContents Author’s acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 Why storytelling is essential Chapter 2 Stories about nature, theatre and play Chapter 3 Stories for play development and assessment Chapter 4 Stories for sequencing and outcomes Chapter 5 Stories for sadness Chapter 6 Stories about neglect Chapter 7 Stories for anger management Chapter 8 Stories for talking about fears Chapter 9 Stories about nature Chapter 10 Stories for feeling good about life (especially looked-after children) Appendix 1 Extra stories to explore Appendix 2 Story techniques for teachers, therapists and parents Appendix 3 Messy play recipes References and useful reading
£42.74
Triarchy Press Embodied Lives: Reflections on the Influence of
Book SynopsisSince the mid-80s, Prapto's moving/dancing has delighted and inspired thousands of people in the West (as well as many more in his native Java) who have witnessed, worked with or been otherwise influenced by his Amerta Movement practice. But what is this non-stylised Amerta Movement practice? And what is it about Prapto's work that so touches the lives of therapists, artists, musicians, dancers, teachers, performers, monastics and laypeople from all walks of life? To answer these questions, this new book collects the experiences of 30 movement practitioners from Indonesia, Europe, North and South America and Australasia. All of them have trained and studied extensively with him and most are recognised by Prapto as movement teachers. Some themes and areas covered: Moving with babies Amerta Movement and Buddhism Using movement to work with autistic children Movement as a way to loosen the habit of critique and criticism Movement and film...and the law...and archaeology...and music Movement mantra Somatic costumes and movement performance Different chapters look at contemplative, vocational, daily life, therapeutic, dance and performative applications of Amerta Movement. Readership: As well as all those familiar with Prapto's work, the book will also be an inspiration and resource for: dance, movement and performance artists, teachers and trainers therapists of all sorts, especially those working with somatics, embodiment, dance and movement anyone wanting to learn more about the nature and application of Prapto's movement practice anyone interested in the value of an embodied approach to life and work - current thinking about the brain and body point to the crucial importance of nonverbal, embodied perception and communication, and Amerta Movement offers an important path toward growth in this area.Trade Review"Suprapto's work with movement is radically inventive and his dancing a revelation." Anna Halprin "Suprapto is a movement master. and his work has deeply touched my life and the lives of countless others... A joy to read for anybody interested in making the most of this creative project called living in a body on planet earth." Ya'Acov Darling Khan, author of Movement Medicine. "Dancing inside, dancing outside - this elegant book illuminates awareness of both body and place. Whether moving amid temples in Java or in your kitchen, this distinctive compendium invites the reader to engage both the grit and coherence of authentic voice. Each page cultivates the thrill of discovery." Andrea Olsen, author of The Place of Dance.Table of ContentsPresence - Beate Stuhm writes about movement from inside the experience, from moment to moment. Amerta movement and archaeology - Keith Miller looks at time, place, layers, memory and the Amerta techniques 'living measurement', 'finding position and point of view' and 'Circle, Oval and Square'. Cultural Aspects of the Movement Work - Christina Stelzer, rather than talking about her own work, highlights and explores three aspects of the Javanese culture that she sees as central to Amerta Movement: waiting, hearing the world and respect. Amerta and Tibetan Buddhism - Monika Forster describes 'hitting yourself with your mind', 'mind as an ally', 'bowing towards daily life', 'being seen', 'giving awareness without creating stagnation'... and other practices. The Eye of the Hand - Steve Hopkins explores movement practice on film through the lens of his work with 3m - meditation, movement and movie - groups in movement workshops, and working with Prapto on film. A Dog Practising 'Talking Body' - Jose Mulder van de Graaf explores the concept of a 'language of feelings', that enables us to understand and to express, even to enhance knowledge in another way. Make Less the Hoping - Sandra Reeve shows how Prapto's teaching about the mudras associated with Borobudur temple can be applied in daily life and ritual. Touching Forgotten Realities - Bettina Mainz investigates the forces of critique, freedom and reconciliation in her life as a movement teacher and dancer. The Echo of Life - Daniela Coronelli shows how Amerta Movement has helped her to develop as a Shiatsu and Seiki practitioner and teacher, utilising direct embodied experience of Resonance and Mindfulness. I Always Do Three Things - Shantam Zohar discusses the Amerta practices of flowering, channeling and semadi [meditation]. A Presencing Dial - Margit Galanter says presence is a basis, filter and medium for how we are in a situation, interacting with one another, the environment and our felt senses. Amerta Movement and Somatic Costume - Sally Dean describes how Prapto's literal, imaginal and metaphorical use of the terms 'costume' and clothing' have informed her ongoing research. Crystallization-performance - Lise Lavelle looks at the crystallizations offered in Amerta movement work. Being and Doing in the Wild Garden - Susanne Tumpel explores the themes of Oneness and Separateness, Organism and Organization in her psychotherapy work. 'Mantra Gerak' / Movement Mantra - Agus Bima Prayitna explains the practice of embodying movement and sound in oneself, art, culture, nature, society and the mystical. The Musical Portal - Tim Jones mixes storytelling with an inquiry into conversation, relationship, the nature of sound and song worlds, finishing with a 'text sound composition'. Near the Unknown - Franca Fubini explores Prapto's ideas of Dreamworld and Realityworld and her application of Amerta Movement in Social Dreaming. Family - Una Nicholson builds on Prapto's idea of the family as a dynamic generator, a source of regeneration and a place to practise the art of everyday living and being. The Infant's Language - Katya Bloom describes her interest in the residual effects of our earliest pre-verbal experiences on later development. 'Going out of the situation' and 'Stop, don't follow that, walk!' - Regula Nell presents movement strategies she practises as a movement teacher, Feldenkrais practitioner and psychomotor-therapist. Amerta Movement and Autism - Sean Williams describes how Prapto gave him a new understanding of his clients and helped him see how working with people on the spectrum is an act of collaborative communication. "Find Your Position" - Susan Bauer explores Prapto's theme of 'finding your position', a means of centering within oneself through embodied presence that opens us to the creative energies of life. Body Body - Helen Poynor explores how the dual lineage of Prapto's and Anna Halprin's approaches to movement relate to her own practice. Ever-speaking being - Michael Dick uses the lenses of 'permeability' and 'presence' as an actor trainer - which he calls developing the human instrument for performing arts. Moving in the Law - Simon Slidders investigates interconnections between Amerta movement practice and the restrictions, boundaries, traditions, flexibility, ambiguities and structures of the law. The Breathing Eye - Andrea Morein illustrates how movement practice has laid the ground for her somatic and contemplative art practice and has informed her work as a visual artist. Joy - Anita Ludke, an architect and freelance artist, writes about how she incorporates Amerta Movement into her teaching and daily life practice. Re-membering Butterfly Beach Melinda Buckwalter describes 'stopping', 're-membering', 'witnessing', 'being with', 'blossoming' and other practices from Amerta Movement. I will trace the constellation of my stars with my fingers - Ellin Krinsly looks at her framework of practice and the constellation of intercultural and ritual performances in her life. Awakening Art and Dharma Nature Time - Diane Butler describes her approach in her own workshop series and the public programs of International Foundation for Dharma Nature Time.
£22.50
Octopus Publishing Group Keep Calm and Colour Unicorns
Book Synopsis'Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.' Wassily KandinskyThere's nothing like a unicorn to give life some colour. Relax, take a break and let your imagination soar...So Keep Calm and Colour Unicorns!
£5.90
Octopus Publishing Group Keep Calm and Colour Mermaids
Book Synopsis'I must be a mermaid… I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.' Anaïs Nin Mermaids are magical, beautiful, mysterious and symbolic of freedom. Now you can explore the underwater world of these mythical creatures in this colouring adventure. Relax, take a break and float away in an ocean of pure imagination.
£5.90
Triarchy Press Before the Curtain Opens: Alexander Technique in
Book SynopsisThe Alexander Technique is a long-established, accessible and highly effective way of learning to change and retrain postural and behavioural habits that cause unnecessary tension, stress and illness.Developed over a century ago by F.M. Alexander (who taught the technique to George Bernard Shaw, Henry Irving, Aldous Huxley and many others), the Alexander Technique is a form of conscious awareness and mindfulness avant la lettre. It has always been used principally by actors – though it has wide applications in other professions and in daily life. Kate Kelly has a lifetime’s experience as an actor and Alexander teacher. In Before the Curtain Opens, she invites performers of all sorts to examine the everyday habits of standing, sitting, breathing, speaking and reacting that spill over, unseen, into their professional lives.?Using her own experience, miniature case studies, humour and unfailingly gentle kindness, she shines a spotlight on our deepest-rooted habits. On every page she offers advice, tips, techniques and guidance to help actors and performers retrain themselves in everything they do in daily life – before the curtain opens.Reviews:“Kate Kelly-Tanguay’s Before the Curtain Opens distils a lifetime’s lived experience of the Alexander Technique into an engaging and vivid introduction to what becomes a holistic philosophy of performance. A must-read for actors, drama students, and anyone who wants to feel more at easy within their own skin. Kate writes with a reassuring immediacy that makes your feel she is in the room with you”.David Grant, Senior Lecturer in Drama, School of Creative Arts, Queen's University, Belfast“I find Kate Kelly's capacity to cover a great deal of ground wittily and succinctly very engaging. The writing was itself a kind of Alexander lesson and I felt better for it.”Stephen Dillane, Actor'The Alexander Technique is a way of learning to change and retrain postural and behavioural habits that cause unnecessary tension, stress and illness. More than this, it is a form of conscious awareness and mindfulness avant la lettre. In this new book the Blake enthusiast and Alexander teacher Kate Kelly explores why Energy is Eternal Delight.'The Blake Society Newsletter, June 2018
£13.30
Unicorn Publishing Group The Healing Arts: The Arts Project at Chelsea and
Book SynopsisChelsea and Westminster Hospital and its charity CW+ have been pioneers in the Arts and Health field for over 25 years. By bringing music, performance and the visual arts into the hospital, they have created an extraordinary environment and transformed the experience of countless patients, visitors and members of staff . In this collection of essays, we delve into the story of the arts at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, from the installation of daring sculpture before the hospital opened its doors, to the exciting future of the programme. The Healing Arts discusses the impact of the arts on patients’ recovery, in some cases shortening their stay or reducing their need for pain medication. From drawing to music to creative digital technology, this volume looks at how integrating the arts into the day-to-day life of the hospital has changed its patients’ experience of care.
£18.00
Michael O'Mara Books Ltd Grow Through It: Inspiration for Weathering
Book SynopsisA charming, colourful illustrated guide showing you how to adopt a more positive mindset, even when the skies are grey and stormy.Beautifully illustrated and heartfelt, this gorgeous little book shares big insights about how to stay positive in an increasingly negative world. Artist Dani DiPirro started her Instagram, @positivelypresent, after she realized that positivity, like all self-care, is an essential skill that needs to be practiced daily. She began posting her bright and bubbly illustrations, sharing the ups and downs of her journey to positive thinking, and now has an audience of over 895,000 followers who find her work comforting, inspiring and uplifting.In Grow Through It, Dani shares never-before-seen content to take us through the seasons, showing us how to pick out the positives on both the sunny days and the grey ones. She also reminds us to take a break for self-care, to stop comparing ourselves to others, and to grow at our own pace. No matter what the situation, optimism is always an option!
£8.99
Triarchy Press Covert: A Handbook: 30 Movement Meditations for
Book Synopsis'Covert' responds to three converging afflictions in society: our growing fixation with spending time looking at a screen the proportion of our lives we spend sitting/lying down, as a result the invasion of our privacy in the digital age To address these challenges (amplified in the Covid-19 pandemic) this handbook compiles 30 'movement meditations' that encourage readers to put down their phones and tablets to reclaim both an active and contemplative lifestyle, one that is highly integrated with, and inspired by, our surroundings. 'Covert' joins-up inner reflection, subtle physical play and public space to suggest ways of resisting invasion and activating the self in an era of sedentary screen time and surveillance. Using 30 carefully crafted 'movement meditations' - each with an accompanying photo to explain it - Covert outlines a straightforward, embodied practice that we can use to defend and preserve ourselves in the everyday world against the intrusion of digital media and the surveillance state. The 'Covert' practice is a way to diminish the lure of the screens, sidestep invasive scrutiny, and nurture the dialogue between our conscious and unconscious selves. By prioritizing introspective interactions with the quirky and complex world around us, 'Covert' shows that we have the means to cultivate our interior and imaginative selves through a dynamic, physical engagement with the wider world.Table of ContentsIntroduction Invasion and the Self Welcoming Spaces The Process The Meditations 1. Score for a strong leaning tree 2. Score for a place with near and far vistas 3. Score for an embedded circular feature 4. Score for a missing object 5. Score for a small 'crossroads' 6. Score for a grove of trees 7. Score for a wall with horizontal layers 8. Score for an abandoned playground 9. Score for a shallow hollow 10. Score for a blocked doorway 11. Score for a busy gridded space 12. Score for distinct side-by-side objects 13. Score for a tunnel 14. Score for a tall fence 15. Score for a dejected tree 16. Score for a public monument 17. Score for a two-toned ground surface 18. Score for the sentinels 19. Score for a standalone portal 20. Score for an ornate leaf 21. Score for an object that is stable but askew 22. Score for a small overgrown space 23. Score for a slope with a disappearing view 24. Score for a pseudo-stage 25. Score for a long high wall 26. Score for a bifurcated tree 27. Score for a neglected sculpture garden 28. Score for an isolated bench 29. Score for a pathway or line of planters 30. Score for a series of lampposts What Bubbles Up The Inner Dance Making Your Own Re-engaging with Place References About the Authors
£14.25
Triarchy Press When I Open My Eyes: Dance Health Imagination
Book SynopsisCelebrated dance artist and body therapist Miranda Tufnell takes us on a moving and inspiring exploration of the field of dance and health. For 14 years she worked in a GP surgery in Cumbria and the book opens with a vivid account of an arts project that she and her collaborators ran there for people with long-term health conditions. This is a book about the body and movement, about imagination and health. It gathers many stories, voices and activities from artists, patients and health practitioners. The arts have long played a role in medicine and there is a substantial body of evidence for the potency of arts practice in strengthening our resources and capacity for wellbeing. While the work is sourced in the body and movement, it is not only written for people with a dance background. Listening creatively to the body strengthens our body intelligence and ability to look after ourselves effectively. Practitioners from many backgrounds come into this field and will find something of interest. This book sets out to inspire rather than to teach, to offer windows into practice, and to convey something of what it is like to work in this field.Trade Review"This book is a plea for dance as a means of moving beyond the anatomised, medicalised, sexualised body to the body as a vital portal into the shifting and complex nature of being alive. It takes the reader on journeys that weave together stories, insights and practical exercises. A rare and moving book and a companion for health practitioners, teachers, students, movers and those searching for creative expression." Niamh Dowling, Principal, RADATable of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword Dr Gavin Young Preface My story of movement Introduction A medicine within PART 1 ‘A Breath of Fresh Air’ – an account of a project. Brenda Mallon and Miranda Tufnell PART 2 Approaches to Practice Breath Touch The practice of saying yes, Eva Karczag Between you and me Self care in times of chaos and violence, Michal Shahak Getting your bearings – movement and sensing Towards meaning – body, health and imagination ‘Chance of fair’ – writing with people with mental and physical health issues, Kay Syrad PART 3 Laying the Foundations – movement in early years development, Karen Adcock Doyle and Jasmine Pasch PART 4 Practitioner Accounts What is this pill called dance? – music and movement in hospital, Filipa Pereira-Stubbs Harry: the story of a child in hospital, Lisa Dowler (co-written with Kellie Rixon, Harry’s mother) Dancing recall: making connections, Daphne Cushnie Moving forward with Parkinson’s, Amanda Fogg Breath and becoming in mental health and addiction, Sister Bridget Folkard A dance for Buddug, Cai Tomos What is health? Permissions Illustrations Biographies of Contributors Bibliography and Resources
£22.50
Murdoch Books Creative First Aid
Book SynopsisYou don''t have to be good at art for art to be good for you.Being creative is good for us: it lowers our stress hormones, calms our nervous system and can get us into a flow state. Our innate creativity is part of being human, but it''s easy to forget, especially since many of us have been told that we are ''no good'' at art.At a time when mental health challenges are on the rise and support systems are stretched, Creative First Aid is your practical guide to taking matters into your own hands, literally. It''s about the proven positive effects of making something - a garden, a story, a meal, a drawing - and the powerful interaction this process can have on your mental, emotional and physical state. It''s about being curious, playful, creative and full of self-compassion - even more so when life gets messy.Based on scientific evidence and a program shown to improve mental wellbeing for first responders and traumatised communities, this inspiring b
£18.00
Sensory World Songames for Sensory Processing: 25
Book SynopsisProvides musical activities for improving fine and gross motor skills, muscle strength, and rhythmicity. These 25 therapist created Songames offer a world of developmental play activities. Plus, the 53 page companion booklet explains how to use music to enhance specific skills, provides a comprehensive list of resources, and triples the number of therapeutic ways to use the games!
£21.21
Barcelona Publishers A History of the Music Therapy Profession Diverse
Book SynopsisProvides an introduction to music therapy concepts and practices from historical and international perspectives, with descriptions of the many models of practice and theories that have shaped the discipline since the 1930s. The book recounts the circumstances and historical precursors for establishment of today's profession, while tracing the enormous diversity of the discipline.
£40.82
BIS Publishers B.V. Creating with Nature
Book SynopsisThis deck of cards is designed to spark new ways of thinking and doing by reconnecting with the natural world. The cards can be used to overcome a creative block, guide a brainstorm session, or get inspired with a new perspective.
£17.27
