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  • Art as Medicine

    Creating a Therapy of the Imagination

    by Shaun McNiff ...
    A pioneering art therapist extolls the arts as a powerful tool in psychotherapy, describing how activating the imagination can heal the mind, heart, and soulThe medicine of the artist, like that of the shaman, arises from his or her relationship to “familiars”—the themes, methods, and materials that interact with the artist through the creative process.“Whenever illness is associated with loss of ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Imagination in Action

    Secrets for Unleashing Creative Expression

    by Shaun McNiff ...
    A guide to the theory and practice of creativity, with proven techniques for jump-starting the creative process—from an esteemed art educator and therapistThere are art teachers—and then there’s Shaun McNiff. An accomplished painter himself, he has spent a career helping people access their creative potential through expressive arts therapy. Now, he is sharing the secrets he’s learned from ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Art Heals

    How Creativity Cures the Soul

    by Shaun McNiff ...
    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 expressionThe 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 ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Trust the Process

    An Artist's Guide to Letting Go

    by Shaun McNiff ...
    A guide to embracing the ups and downs of the artistic process—and allowing them to carry you along your unique creative journeyWhether in painting, poetry, performance, music, dance, or life, there is an intelligence working in every situation. This force is the primary carrier of creation. If we trust it and follow its natural movement, it will astound us with its ability to find a way through ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Art Is the Evidence

    A Guide to Art-Based Research

    by Shaun McNiff ...
    Art-based research uses artmaking as a mode of inquiry and presents the art as evidence. While sharing many qualities with science, it is distinguished by the unique character of each expression and personal dimensions that must also transcend their creators in establishing relevance to others.Artistic intelligence is a gestating, unpredictable, and often challenging crucible of creation that ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Art-Based Research

    by Shaun McNiff ...
    Art therapy and all of the other creative arts therapies have promoted themselves as ways of expressing what cannot be conveyed in conventional language. Why is it that creative arts therapists fail to apply this line of thinking to research? In this exciting and innovative book, Shaun McNiff, one of the field's pioneering educators and authors, breaks new ground in defining and inspiring art ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • The Handbook of Art Therapy and Digital Technology

    by Shaun McNiff, Christopher Belkofer, Kristin Belkofer, Alexander Kopytin, J. Lauren Johnson, Bronwen Gray, Alan Young, Brian Austin, Joe Kavitski, Gudrun Jones, Molly K. Kometiani, Jeffrey Jamerson, Bryce Evans, Olena Darewych, Seong-in Kim, Donald Cutcher, Jedediah Walls, Jeff Lohrius, Debra Johnson-Fuller, Elizabeth Warson, Rachel Rahman, Martine Robson, Natalie Rae Carlton ...
    Interest in the use of digital technology in art therapy has grown significantly in recent years. This book provides an authoritative overview of the applications of digital art therapy with different client groups and considers the implications for practice.Alongside Cathy Malchiodi, the contributors review the pros and cons of introducing digital technology into art therapy, address the ... Read more

    $48.39 CAD

  • Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching

    Multidisciplinary Approaches Across the Arts

    Edited by Ross W. Prior ...
    Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching explores various multidisciplinary visual and performing art forms, including creative writing, as ways to provide a rich contribution and understanding to research, learning and teaching. Key figures in the field share their art-based research, arts practice and philosophy, bringing the arts to life within their taught and learnt contexts across a ... Read more

    $29.49 CAD

  • Art in Action

    Expressive Arts Therapy and Social Change

    by Judith Alalu, Jose Miguel Calderon, Ximena Maurial, Sally Atkins, Gloria Simoneaux, Karen Abbs, Debra L. Kalmanowitz, Dr Ephrat Huss, Carrie MacLeod, Bobby Lloyd, Martin Zavala, Monica Prado, Shaun McNiff, Paolo J. Knill, Karen Estrella, Shanee Stepakoff, Samer Hussein, Mariam Al-Salahat, Insherah Musa, Moath Asfoor, Eman Al-Houdali, Maysa Al-Hmouz, Vivien Marcow-Speiser, Samuel Schwartz, MaryBeth Morand ...
    Series series Arts Therapies
    The field of expressive arts is closely tied to the work of therapeutic change. As well as being beneficial for the individual or small group, expressive arts therapy has the potential for a much wider impact, to inspire social action and bring about social change.The book's contributors explore the transformative power of the arts therapies in areas stricken by conflict, political unrest, poverty ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Art Can Heal Your Life

    Techniques for Self-Healing through the Creative Process

    by Shaun McNiff ...
    Narrated by Shaun McNiff ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 7 min

    How art heals is a mystery as old as civilization itself. To the first shamans, no remedy was more important than the medicine of the imagination. Now you can learn to access this natural medicine and explore your own soul's capacity for self-healing with Shaun McNiff's Art Can Heal Your Life.For the past 30 years, artist and art therapist Shaun McNiff has worked in this same tradition, seeking ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Poetry in Expressive Arts

    Supporting Resilience through Poetic Writing

    by Margo Fuchs Knill, Sally Atkins ...
    Poetry is increasingly used in therapy, and it already occupies a central place in expressive arts therapies. This book is the first to explicitly combine theory and practice from the field of expressive arts with poetry and poetics.The book offers both a guide and poetic encouragement for using poetry in expressive arts work. Within this arts context, poetry is offered as a way to create hope and ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • New Developments in Expressive Arts Therapy

    The Play of Poiesis

    by Sally Atkins, Shara Claire, Kelly Clark/Keefe, Melinda Ashley Meyer DeMott, Herbert Eberhart, Rosemary Faire, Jessica Gilway, Rowesa Gordon, Judith Greer Essex, Isabelle Hayeur, Lisa Herman, Elisabeth Hösli, Majken Jacoby, Margo Fuchs Knill, Paolo J. Knill, Kelly Lycan, Carrie MacLeod, Elizabeth Gordon McKim, Shaun McNiff, Emily Miller, Judy Nisenholt, Sabine S. Silberberg, Jacques Stitelmann, Per Espen Stoknes, Brigitte Wanzenried, Peter Wanzenried, Rebekah Windmiller ...
    This collection reflects on the theory and application of expressive arts today in therapy, education, research and social and ecological change.Bringing the understanding of expressive arts into its contemporary theoretical framework, the book reveals the expansion of the field from its initial focus on therapy alone into a diverse range of other areas of interest to therapists, educators, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD