FocusingOriented Art Therapy: Accessing the Bodys Wisdom and Creative Intelligence

Focusing provides an effective way of listening to the innate wisdom of the body, while art therapy harnesses and activates creative intelligence. FocusingOriented Art Therapy: Accessing the Bodys Wisdom and Creative Intelligence is a groundbreaking book integrating renowned psychologist Eugene Gendlins Focusing with art therapy. This new, Focusingbased approach to art therapy helps clients to befriend their inner experience, access healing imagery from the bodys felt sense to express in art, and carry forward implicit steps that lead toward change.Written for readers to be able to learn the application of this innovative approach, the book provides indepth examples and descriptions of how to adapt FocusingOriented Art Therapy to a wide variety of clinical populations including individuals and groups with severe psychiatric illness, trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, and more, as well as applications to private practice, illness and wellness, spirituality, and selfcare.Integrating theory, clinical practice, and numerous guided exercises, this accessible book will enhance clinical sensitivity and skill, while adding resources for bringing creativity into practice. It will be of interest to art therapists, Focusing therapists, psychologists, counselors and social workers, as well as trainers and students.