Arthur Robbins EdD is Professor of Art Therapy, Pratt Institute, and Director of the Institute of Expressive Analysis. He has published five books and many articles in a number of professional journals, and has served as a key note speaker and workshop leader in conferences throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.
1. Preface. 2. Integrating the personal and the theoretical splits in the
struggle towards an identity as an art therapist. 3. Becoming an art
therapist. 4. Creativity development. 5. The use of imagery. 6. A creative
arts approach to art therapy. 7. The play of psychotherapeutic artistry and
psychoaesthetics. 8. Resistance in art therapy: A multi-modal approach. 9.
Art therapist and psychic healer: Description of a joint workshop. 10.
Clinical considerations. 11. Art diagnosis. 12. Diagnostic indicators in
the artwork of borderline and dissociative patients. 13. Developing
therapeutic artistry: A joint countertransference supervisory
seminar/sculpting workshop. 14. Countertransference and the art therapeutic
process with borderline patients. 15. technique. 16. Materials. 17.
Institutional issues. Case Studies. 18. Clinical applications. 19. Art
therapy with a floating fortress, Linda Joan Brown. 20. Merger and
separateness, Kristin Stonehouse. 21. Regressive reintegration, Anne
Reilly. 22. Play, art and photography in a therapeutic nursery school,
Ellen Nelson/Gee. 23. The phantom's mask: A search for meaning, Michele M.
Neuhaus. 24. A case of chronic childhood abuse, Patricia Savage Williams.
25. The use of film, photography and art with ghetto adolescents, Marbara
Maciag.
