Art therapy and political violence : with art, without illusion / edited by Debra Kalmanowitz and Bobby Lloyd.

With accounts from Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Israel and South Africa, this book vividly illustrates the therapeutic power of art making and art therapy in helping individuals, families and communities cope with experiences of political violence.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Kalmanowitz, Debra, 1965-, Lloyd, Bobby, 1964-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Prologue: with art, without illusion; Introduction; Art therapy and political violence; Political violence, trauma and mental health interventions; 'The moment in and out of time': reflections on context and timing in art therapy interventions in Kosovo; Feast of colour: creating something out of very little
  • art making as psychosocial intervention with children of a forgotten war, Sudan.
  • From dark black to bright pink: the power of art expression and creation in coping with life under threat, Israel 2001-2002Inside the Portable Studio: art therapy in the former Yugoslavia 1994-2002; Creativity from chaos: an art therapist's account of art work produced in the aftermath of a bombing in her community, Omagh, Northern Ireland; A time for healing: art therapy for children, post September 11, New York; Expressive arts therapy
  • healing the traumatized: the Palestinian experience; Transforming objects in a transforming South Africa.
  • A soldier's story: an art therapy intervention in Sri LankaSilence in exile: a case study of an adolescent asylum seeker in London; Art therapy and trauma, a different setting, a different approach: interventions in the Netherlands and former Yugoslavia; Epilogue; Index.