ABSTRACT
Arts Therapies and Gender Issues offers international perspectives on gender in arts therapies research and demonstrates understandings of gender and arts therapies in a variety of global contexts. Analysing current innovations and approaches in the arts therapies, it discusses issues of cultural identity, which intersect with sex, gender norms, stereotypes and sexual identity.
The book includes unique and detailed case studies such as the emerging discipline of creative writing for therapeutic purposes, re-enactment phototherapy, performative practice and virtual reality. Bringing together leading researchers, it demonstrates clinical applications and shares ideas about best practice.
Incorporating art, drama, dance and music therapy, this book will be of great interest to academics and researchers in the fields of arts therapies, psychology, medicine, psychotherapy, health and education. It will also appeal to practitioners and teachers of art, dance-movement, drama and music therapy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|1 pages
Art therapy, dance movement therapy, drama therapy and music therapy
chapter 2|8 pages
Drawing on visions of the future of young women in poverty
chapter 5|15 pages
The eye of the beholder
chapter 6|20 pages
Parental gender roles in clay
part II|1 pages
Emergent practices and specialisms