Expressive Therapeutic Writing Guiding Transformation And Restorative Care Through Intermodal Arts Word By Word | Mental Health

This book brings engagement and conversation to a cross‑pollination of creative and expressive writing and multi‑modal art forms. Through the lens of expressive arts therapy the authors demonstrate how writing can reveal the unexpected that emerges from art making. The lineage of expressive arts therapy includes artful writing poetry associative creative and memoir for example to engage in self‑discovery growth and restorative care. Each chapter is grounded in intermodal expressive arts with a central focus on creative and expressive writing which is informed by movement visual art storytelling music sound photography and physical performance including response art and has writing prompts and invitations as well as playful and improvisational integrative arts writing explorations. Creative arts therapists and expressive therapists actively searching for creative playful self‑reflective writing practice will find this book a rewarding resource. Krystal Leah Demaine Ph D MT‑BC REAT CTRS‑C RYT music therapist expressive arts therapist and professor of expressive therapies at Endicott College practices HEARTful healing note by note through song story poetry and creative curiosity. Tamar Reva Einstein Ph D REAT expressive arts therapist poet/artist and teacher crosses cultural borders in Jerusalem with the arts as her mother tongue threading writing and arts like her threaded beads and amulets. |Expressive Therapeutic Writing Guiding Transformation and Restorative Care through Intermodal Arts Word by Word | Mental Health