Healing with the Arts

Healing with the Arts
Author: Michael Samuels
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1451696833

Heal yourself and your community with this proven 12-week program that uses the arts to awaken your innate healing abilities. From musicians in hospitals to quilts on the National Mall—art is already healing people all over the world. It is helping veterans recover, improving the quality of life for cancer patients, and bringing communities together to improve their neighborhoods. Now it’s your turn. Through art projects, including visual arts, dance, writing, and music, along with spiritual practices and guided imagery, Healing with the Arts gives you the tools to address what you need to heal in your life—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. An acclaimed twelve-week program lauded by hospitals and caretakers from around the world, Healing with the Arts gives you the ability to heal your family and your friends, as well as communities where you’ve always wanted to make a difference. Internationally known leaders in the arts in medicine movement, Michael Samuels, MD, and Mary Rockwood Lane, RN, PhD, show you how to use creativity and self-expression to pave the artist’s path to healing.

Art Heals

Art Heals
Author: Shaun McNiff
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2004-11-16
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0834827298

A leader in art therapy shares powerful developments in the field and provides a road-map for unlocking the spiritual and emotional healing benefits of creative expression The field of art therapy is discovering that artistic expression can be a powerful means of personal transformation and emotional and spiritual healing. In this book, Shaun McNiff—a leader in expressive arts therapy for more than three decades—reflects on a wide spectrum of activities aimed at reviving art’s traditional healing function. In chapters ranging from “Liberating Creativity” and “The Practice of Creativity in the Workplace” to “From Shamanism to Art Therapy,” he illuminates some of the most progressive views in the rapidly expanding field of art therapy, including: • The “practice of imagination” as a powerful force for transformation • A challenge to literal-minded psychological interpretations of artworks (“black colors indicate depression”) and the principle that even disturbing images have inherent healing properties • The role of the therapist in promoting an environment conducive to free expression and therapeutic energies • The healing effects of group work, with people creating alongside one another and interacting in the studio • “Total expression,” combining arts such as movement, storytelling, and drumming with painting and drawing

Grief and the Healing Arts

Grief and the Healing Arts
Author: Sandra L. Bertman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1999
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

Illuminates the many facets that link grief, counseling, and creativity. This book suggests multiple strategies that will help practitioners enlarge their repertoire of hands-on skills and foster introspection and empathy in reader.

Healing Through the Arts for Non-Clinical Practitioners

Healing Through the Arts for Non-Clinical Practitioners
Author: Bopp, Jenny
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2018-09-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1522559825

Time and time again the arts have been called on to provide respite and relief from fear, anxiety, and pain in clinical medicinal practices. As such, it is vital to explore how the use of the arts for emotional and mental healing can take place outside of the clinical realm. Healing Through the Arts for Non-Clinical Practitioners is an essential reference source that examines and describes arts-based interventions and experiences that support the healing process outside of the medical field. Featuring research on topics such as arts-based interventions and the use of writing, theatre, and embroidery as methods of healing, this book is ideally designed for academicians, non-clinical practitioners, educators, artists, and rehabilitation professionals.

Healing with Art and Soul

Healing with Art and Soul
Author: Kathy Luethje
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2008-12-18
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1443803081

This fascinating collection of essays contains a variety of perspectives about the use of expressive arts for facilitating physical and emotional healing. Each author within brings a fresh approach and unique experiences to their writing. Within these pages, you will find many ideas for the use of the arts and can learn how to engage the inner layers of the self that allow natural healing processes of the body and soul to flourish. When we fully engage an art modality, we find ourselves in a place in our consciousness that could be called 'healingspace,' where we feel ourselves whole and re-member ourselves as well. From psychic trauma to physical illness, dis-ease of many kinds may be addressed through the various techniques discussed here. The tools offered by some authors are population specific and age appropriate, while several authors have given us the philosophical underpinnings for it all. While the authors within represent the grassroots voices of this new and rapidly expanding field, several of them have developed their own methods for using the arts, and have thriving practices. Our approach is wholistic. Music, visual arts, movement, dance, and poetry are discussed as separate modalities and in combination with one another in a process or flow. The reader will engage in our experiences with these modalities as they have been lived. The complementary CD that accompanies this book will allows the listener to have a full sound experience of toning. If a rationale is needed for establishing arts programs in medical centers or other health facilities, it can be found here. The book offers tools for self development and for group facilitation. Those wanting to expand their healing practice through the use of the arts will find the book to be a faithful guide. Anyone wishing for a fuller understanding of how the arts may work to facilitate healing will find much food for thought within these pages.

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Healing with the Arts (embedded videos)
Author: Michael Samuels
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1476754551

Heal yourself and your community with this proven 12-week program that uses the arts to awaken your innate healing abilities. Acclaimed by hospitals and caretakers from around the world, Healing with the Arts brings a tried and true program out of the medical field and into your home and neighborhood. Improve your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health in just 12 weeks. Whether you are ill, suffering from emotional trauma, or looking to unite your community, the arts become the conduit to restore your wellness and thrive in life. Dr. Michael Samuels and Dr. Mary Rockwood Lane created and developed this unique and powerful process to help anyone heal. Through innovative art projects—from the visual arts, movement and dance, writing, and music—along with spiritual practices and guided imagery, readers learn to get in touch with their inner muse and inner healer. Based on years of research and experience in the medical community, Healing with the Arts sets the stage for a more meaningful and healthier existence.

Grief and the Healing Arts

Grief and the Healing Arts
Author: Sandra L. Bertman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 448
Release: 1999
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

An anthology of essays, fiction, poetry, and first-person accounts on coming to terms with grief through the catharsis and insight of the creative arts. Selections are grouped in sections on personal grief and professional roles, ways caregivers use the arts for themselves and for those they companion, lessons from other cultures, and basic needs of grieving people. Specific subjects include Therapeutic Touch, healing and the Internet, music and the grief process, and using art therapy with pediatric oncology patients. The editor is a professor of humanities in medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. For therapists, counselors, social workers, physicians, nurses, and clergy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Alchemical Vessels 2017

Alchemical Vessels 2017
Author: Smith Center for Healing and the Arts
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-04-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780989409438

Full Color Exhibition catalogue of Alchemical Vessels show at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Center for Healing and the Arts in Washington, DC. 20 curators invited local artists to create an artwork on the concept of The Night Journey - the importance of going deep and engaging the painful parts of life in order to heal.

Art Therapy Through the Ages: A Step-by-Step Guide to Self-Expression and Healing

Art Therapy Through the Ages: A Step-by-Step Guide to Self-Expression and Healing
Author: Thomas Jacob
Publisher: Thomas Jacob
Total Pages: 47
Release: 2024-02-22
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

"Art Therapy Through the Ages: A Step-by-Step Guide to Self-Expression and Healing" invites you on a transformative journey of self-discovery and healing through the power of art. In this comprehensive guide, delve into the rich tapestry of art therapy, exploring its evolution through the ages and discovering how it has been a beacon of self-expression and healing for individuals across different cultures and time periods. Uncover the secrets of harnessing your inner creativity as the book seamlessly weaves together the history of art therapy with practical, step-by-step exercises. Whether you're a seasoned artist or a novice, this guide empowers you to unlock the healing potential of artistic expression. From ancient civilizations to contemporary practices, witness the profound impact of art on the human psyche and learn how it has served as a universal language of healing throughout history. Guided by expert insights and illustrated with compelling examples, "Art Therapy Through the Ages" provides a roadmap for embracing the therapeutic benefits of art. Engage in a variety of hands-on exercises designed to help you navigate challenges, express emotions, and foster self-awareness. Explore diverse artistic mediums, from painting and drawing to sculpture and collage, as you embark on a personal journey of growth and healing. Whether you seek solace in the strokes of a paintbrush or find refuge in the sculpting of clay, this book offers a sanctuary for self-reflection and self-expression. Join the ranks of countless individuals who have found healing, empowerment, and joy through the transformative practice of art therapy. "Art Therapy Through the Ages" is your guide to unlocking the profound connection between creativity and healing, providing a timeless resource for those seeking a path to self-discovery and well-being.

Healing through Art

Healing through Art
Author: Nadia Ferrara
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0773571981

Ferrara, who is accepted as a healer in Cree communities, shows how art therapy became a ritual for her patients, noting that Crees often associate art therapy and their experience in the bush and arguing that both constitute a place for them to re-affirm their notions of self. By including patient drawings and letting us hear Cree voices, "Healing through Art" gives us a sense of the reality of everyday Cree experience. This innovative book transcends disciplinary boundaries and makes a significant contribution to anthropology, Native Studies, and clinical psychology.