On Art and Therapy: An Exploration (1991)

Second Hand

Excellent Condition

The term 'art therapy' was coined when it was recognised that painting, drawing and modelling had healing effects on people. The art therapist came later.

What is the therapist's role, and what can be intrinsically therapeutic in creative engagement with the media and modes of visual expression? The early practitioners saw themselves as facilitators in setting free a spontaneous imaginative activity. Now verbal explorations of the image produced tend to predominate.

Martina Thomson makes an eloquent plea for the therapist to return to a trust in the therapeutic value of the creative process itself. Beautifully and elegantly written, this book will be richly suggestive for artists, art teachers, and everyone concerned with creativity in the therapeutic process.