Spirituality and Art Therapy: Living the Connection

Interesting book and arrived in perfect condition

Perfectly delivered, brand new, and received with enthusiasm.

I liked this book very much. I think that all the art therapists and psychologists who use art as a therapeutic tool should read it .They will enjoy the reports as they will learn with the authors repports.It has been very usefull for my clinical practice.

Looks like this will be helpful to me and my patients.

as a graduate of naropa university, mimi is one of my mentors. this is easily one of my favorite art therapy books out there. it is endlessly inspiring and beautifully edited. it is full of the wisdom of so many gifted therapists.

To describe this book as a collection of essays would be technically correct but not very helpful. It would make it sound dry, but in fact all the essays are very interesting and written in an intelligent accessible style. They are not overwhelmed by jargon.I am not an art therapist but these essays give a real insight into that fascinating world where a therapist may work with a vast array of people-special needs children, emotionally disturbed adolescents, elderly people with dementia, the homeless, offenders, ex-offenders-and often witness profound and unexpected changes.I get the impression that art therapists are an extremely warm and creative group of people, very respectful of their clients and constantly on the lookout for ways to enable/facilitate creative work. Compliments to them. The authors of these essays come from a variety of spiritual backgrounds-liberal Christian, Jewish, shamanic, Buddhist, and yogic.Part of what they do in the essays is explore how their own particular background informs the work they do, and how the work they do feeds back into the spiritual experience. Forget about fundamentalism, "having all the answers" and seeking to impose them on other people-this just doesn't happen here. I'd recommend this book to anyone interested in creativity, spiriuality, or both. A more obviously philosophical look at some of the issues would be Matthew Fox's excellent ON CREATIVITY, which I also have.