Rubin - Approaches to art therapy: theory and technique

The third edition of Approaches to Art Therapy brings together varied theoretical approaches and provides a variety of solutions to the challenge of translating theory to technique. In each chapter, the fields most eminent scholars provide a definition of and orientation to the specific theory or area of emphasis, showing its relevance to art therapy. The third edition includes many new chapters with material on a wide variety of topics including contemplative approaches, DBT, neuroscience, and mentalization, while also retaining important and timeless contributions from the pioneers of art therapy. Clinical case examples and over 100 illustrations of patient artwork vividly demonstrate the techniques in practice. Approaches to Art Therapy, Third Edition, is an essential resource in the assembly of any clinicians theoretical and technical toolbox, and in the formulation of each individuals own approach to art therapy.

Judith Aron Rubin, Ph.D., ATR-BC, is a licensed psychologist, a child and adult psychoanalyst, and a past president and honorary life member of the American Art Therapy Association. She is also co-founder and president of Expressive Media and has practiced art therapy since 1963. The creator of seven books and thirteen films, she serves on the faculties of the psychiatry department at the University of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center in Pennsylvania.

Third Edition

Edited by Judith Aron Rubin

Third edition published 2016

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First edition published by Brunner/Mazel 1987

Second edition published by Brunner-Routledge 2001

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Approaches to art therapy : theory and technique / [edited by] Judith Aron
Rubin. Third edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-138-88455-7 (hardback : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-138-88456-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-315-71601-5 (ebook)1.Art therapy. I.Rubin, Judith Aron.
RC489.A7A67 2016
616.89'1656dc23
2015024934

ISBN: 978-1-138-88455-7 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-88456-4 (pbk)

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Judith Rubin

Part I
Foundations

Laurie Wilson

Mala Betensky

Mildred Chapin
Barbara Fish

Catherine Hyland Moon

Part II
Psychodynamic Approaches

Judith Rubin

Edith Kramer

Elizabeth Stone

Elinor Ulman

Arthur Robbins

Eleanor Irwin

Dominik Havsteen-Franklin

Nora Swan-Foster

Michael Edwards

Edith Wallace

Part III
Humanistic Approaches

Bruce Moon

Janie Rhyne

Natalie Rogers

Gioia Chilton and Rebecca Wilkinson

Part IV
Contemplative Approaches

Pat Allen

Laury Rappaport

Michael Franklin

Part V
Cognitive and Neuroscience Approaches

Marcia Rosal

Linda Gantt and Laura Greenstone

Noah Hass-Cohen and Joanna Clyde Findlay

Part VI
Systemic Approaches

Barbara Sobol and Paula Howie

Katherine Williams and Tally Tripp

Part VII
Integrative Approaches

Susan Aach-Feldman and Carole Kunkle-Miller

David Henley

Shaun McNiff

Harriet Wadeson

Judith Rubin

*Deceased.

Susan Aach-Feldman, M.Ed., ATR*

Expressive Arts Therapist, Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children; Adjunct Faculty, Art Therapy Program, Carlow College, Pittsburgh, PA; Consultant, Arts in Special Education Project of Pennsylvania.

Pat Allen, Ph.D., ATR, HLM

Co-founder and Former Co-director, Open Studio Project, Chicago, IL; formerly Adjunct Professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Director, Virtual Studio Pardes, Ojai, CA; Author, Art Is a Way of Knowing, Art Is a Spiritual Path.

Mala Betensky, Ph.D., ATR*

Psychologist and Art Therapist in Private Practice, Washington, DC; Author, Self-Discovery Through Self-Expression; What Do You See?.

Mildred Chapin, M.Ed., ATR, HLM

Painter, Poet and Art Therapist, Tucson, AZ; Formerly Director, Adjunctive Therapies, Barclay & Pritzker Hospitals, Chicago, IL; Author and Illustrator, Reverberations: Mothers & Daughters and Haiku, Painted and Written.

Gioia Chilton, Ph.D., ATR-BC

Creative Director of Creative Wellbeing Workshops, LLC; Associate Editor, Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal; 2014 Torrance Award, American Creativity Association.

Michael Edwards, R.A.Th., H.L.M.*

Jungian Analyst and Art Therapist in Private Practice, Cornwall, England; formerly Director, Graduate Art Therapy Program, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada and Honorary Curator, The C. G. Jung Picture Archives.

Joanna Clyde Findlay, M.A., ATR

Adjunct Faculty, California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, Phillips Graduate Institute, Los Angeles, CA; Co-author, Art Therapy and the Neuroscience of Relationships, Creativity, and Resiliency: Skills and Practices.

Barbara Fish, Ph.D., ATR-BC

Faculty, University of Illinois at Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Author, Art-Based Supervision: Cultivating Therapeutic Insight through Imagery.

Michael Franklin, Ph.D., ATR-BC

Coordinator, Art Therapy program, Naropa University; formerly Director of Training Programs, Bowling-Green-State University; College-of-Saint-Teresa. Author, Art as Contemplative Practice: Expressive Pathways to the Self.

Linda Gantt, Ph.D., ATR-BC, HLM

Owner, West Virginia Trauma Consultants, Intensive Trauma Therapy, ITT Training Institute; Co-developer with Louis Tinnin, The Instinctual Trauma Response and Dual Brain Dynamics; Co-developer, Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale (FEATS); Past President, American Art Therapy Association.

Laura Greenstone, M.S, LPC, ATR-BC

Co-creator, Arts Based Approach to Psychological First Aid; Past Chair, National Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies Associations; New Jersey Certified Disaster Response Crisis Counselor.