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What is embodied art therapy?
What is embodied art therapy?
An art therapy approach in which conscious attention is given to the body and that seeks to integrate art processes with an increased awareness and ability to regulate the body. This is an integrative process that allows for the emergent qualities of both art therapy and embodied therapies. Elements of this approach include: (a) using a combination of top-down (brain-to-body) and bottom-up (body-to-brain) methods; (b) promoting body awareness; (c) encouraging co-regulation between client and therapist; (d) incorporating the Expressive Therapies Continuum; (e) a trauma-informed approach including psychoeducation of trauma physiology and the therapeutic importance of attunement; and (f) direct somatic training (e.g., muscle relaxation or breath awareness).
What's in the book?
What's in the book?
This volume, the first of its kind, brings together current research, protocols, and methods within embodied art therapy from theoretical, clinical, and practical perspectives, for use by clinicians, educators, and students alike.
Bringing together the perspectives and experiences of practitioners and theorists in the emerging field of embodied art therapy, this book highlights the importance of the body in equitable, sustainable, and trauma-informed psychotherapy. The chapters in this book cover groundwork and theory, clinical practices, methods and materials, and supervision and pedagogy of embodied art therapy illustrated with case studies demonstrating its impact with diverse clients and their unique sensory and kinesthetics needs. Topics covered include neurobiology, trauma, attachment, somatic art therapy methods including Guided Drawing and yoga-based art therapy, working in nature, online, and in the transpersonal realm.
Training in body awareness allows clinicians to attune to all kinds of bodies. Allied professionals, students, educators and art therapists will all find this volume a necessary part of their professional development.
Why is this approach important for the field?
Why is this approach important for the field?
Body-to-body practice levels therapeutic hierarchy in which traditionally the therapist is the expert. In embodied art therapy, each member is an expert in their own embodied experiences, which is part of a larger social justice approach.
Embodied art therapy honors the body's wisdom and views it as a location of resilience, comfort, and healing.
Embodied art therapy integrates evidence-based neurophysiological concepts essential to contemporary trauma and attachment theory to ally art therapy clinical practice and training with current research.
Body-based and art therapy practices are isomorphic, emergent processes that are person-centered, sustainable, and accessible to all bodies.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Mia de Béthune, Kelley Linhardt, and Valeria Koutmina
Introduction
Mia de Béthune, Kelley Linhardt, and Valeria Koutmina
Part I: Theoretical foundations for embodiment in art therapy
1: The intersection of art therapy, embodiment, and body-based therapies
2: Trauma, attachment, and the body: Implications for art therapy
3: Neuroscience in the service of art therapy: Transcending classic approaches and advancing our understanding through principles of embodiment
Johanna Czamanski-Cohen and Juliet King
4: Haptic perception in art therapy
Part II: Clinical applications of embodied art therapy
5: Traditional body-based methods in art therapy: Guided imagery, body mapping, and body tracing
6: Embodied methods in art therapy
Laury Rappaport, Cornelia Elbrecht, and Johanne Hamel
7: Sensorimotor therapy and sensory modulation applications within art therapy
Kelley Linhardt, Valerie Bostory, and Mia de Béthune
8: Embodiment, energy therapy, and the transpersonal
9: Embodied methods in online art therapy
Mia de Béthune, Valeria Koutmina, and Lidice Cohen
Part III: Diverse bodies, diverse needs: Applications in different clinical settings
10: Social dichotomies, the body, and the transgressive power of creativity in an acute psychiatric setting
11: Eating disorders: Working with the body and its image in art therapy
Keren Blumenthal Yanir and Abigail Bramnick
12: Gender-affirming ethos in embodied art therapy
Zachary D. Van Den Berg and Dani DeLade
13: Intergenerational trauma and the embodied creative wisdom of Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples
Deanna Barton and Melissa Ulloa
14: Engaging Disability Art: Lessons for embodied, anti-oppressive art therapy
15: Grace in the broken parts: Embodied art therapy methods for working with chronic pain and medical trauma
Jennifer Tedesco and Cindy Perkiss
16: Embodying grief, celebrating death: An art therapy approach
Marie Deschamps and Valeria Koutmina
Part IV: Embodied materials, methods, and settings
17: At home in one's body: Embodied art therapy spaces
18: The spirit of matter: An embodied approach to art materials
19: Environmental art therapy: The body in nature
20: Integrative clinical practices: Art therapy, biofeedback and Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing
Christina A. Grosso and Katharine Hertwick
21: Integrating art therapy and yoga for an intentional embodied practice
Part V: Training embodied art therapists
22: Teaching embodied methods to art therapy students
Mia de Béthune and Christina A. Grosso
23: Cultivating resonance: The embodied supervision relationship in art therapy
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