ABSTRACT
Chapter 10 considers the arts therapies from the perspective of debates about the relationships between the arts and sciences. It explores how, by drawing energy from the apparently oppositional worlds of art and science, the arts therapies are still developing and understanding the nature of the changes they offer to clients. A number of arts therapists point to tension or difficulty which often reflects the relationship between arts practised in what some see as science-oriented environments. The relationships between the arts therapies and existing models and practices of healthcare has been, and still is, a complex one. The chapter explores different responses within the arts therapies to this issue. It explores how the arts therapies enter into dialogue with traditional modes of medical provision and care and their frameworks of understanding and accounting for change. It also considers how the arts therapies offer challenge, innovation and experimentation to existing systems and procedures in healthcare.
