New Developments in Expressive Arts Therapy: The Play of Poiesis

346 Pages·2017·4.502 MB·English

by  Ellen G. Levine, Stephen K. Levine

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Edited by ELLEN G. LEVINE and STEPHEN K. LEVINE
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“In an age that sees too many therapists and counselors writing in
strings of buzzwords and trendy movements, the contributors to
this book remind us there are deeper currents that bind us in our
common work. From time to time, artist/therapists need to rejoice in
the human, and in the soulful nature of making art in the service of
healing. This book may provide opportunities for many to pause, take
stock, and rejoice.”
—Bruce L. Moon, PhD, ATR-BC, Professor,
Art Therapy Department, Mount Mary University
“Expressive arts therapy is rapidly emerging as a mainstream approach
in psychotherapy and healthcare. This volume vividly illustrates
leading-edge expressive arts applications while providing important
historical foundations of this field. Readers will be inspired by the
authors’ wisdom and insights on theory and practice of expressive arts
in mental health, education, research and community work.”
—Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, LPCC, LPAT, ATR-BC, REAT,
Executive Director, Trauma-Informed Practices and
Expressive Arts Therapy Institute
“Ellen and Stephen Levine have given birth to an anthology of breadth
and depth, of ideas and revelations. The writers are carefully chosen
to open up the boundaries and conversations regarding expressive
therapy, a discipline more needed than ever in a broken world in denial
of history and in need of direction. The Levines offer a blueprint for
repair, a poiesis in itself, something new and playful and powerful.”
—Robert Landy, PhD, Professor of Educational Theatre and
Applied Psychology, Founding Director,
Drama Therapy Program, New York University
by the same authors
Art in Action
Expressive Arts Therapy and Social Change
Ellen G. Levine and Stephen K. Levine
Foreword by Michelle LeBaron
ISBN 978 1 84905 820 9
eISBN 978 0 85700 270 9
Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy
Toward a Therapeutic Aesthetics
Paolo Knill, Ellen G. Levine and Stephen K. Levine
ISBN 978 1 84310 039 3
eISBN 978 1 84642 032 0
Foundations of Expressive Arts Therapy
Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives
Edited by Stephen K. Levine and Ellen G. Levine
ISBN 978 1 85302 463 4
eISBN 978 1 84642 185 3
Poiesis
The Language of Psychology and the Speech of the Soul
Stephen K. Levine
ISBN 978 1 85302 488 7
eISBN 978 0 85700 074 3
Trauma, Tragedy, Therapy
The Arts and Human Suffering
Stephen K. Levine
ISBN 978 1 84310 512 1
eISBN 978 0 85700 193 1
Play and Art in Child Psychotherapy
An Expressive Arts Therapy Approach
Ellen G. Levine
ISBN 978 1 84905 504 8
eISBN 978 0 85700 919 7
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
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ARTS THERAPY
The Play of Poiesis
Edited by ELLEN G. LEVINE and STEPHEN K. LEVINE
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Stephen K. Levine
Stuhl-leben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Brigitte Wanzenried
The Poietics of Alterity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Stephen K. Levine
Part I Theory
Pasture 6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Shaun McNiff
After. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Sally Atkins
1. Cultivating Imagination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Shaun McNiff
2. The Essence in a Therapeutic Process, an Alternative
Experience of Worlding? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Paolo J. Knill
3. Longing for Beauty and the Work: An Interview with Paolo Knill 48
Stephen K. Levine
4. Modality: A Phenomenological Concept for Expressive Arts . . . . 66
Jacques Stitelmann, Translated by Jackie Beaver
Translated by Jackie Beaver
5. The Poietic Basis of Being: Thoughts on Expression
and the Other Person Based on the Work of Merleau-Ponty . . . . 82
Majken Jacoby
Part II Therapy
Nutcase Alarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Rowesa Gordon
Practicum on the Eating Disorders Ward: Sonnet 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Shara Claire
6. The Arts Work: The Process of Intermodal Decentering
in Professional Conversations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Herbert Eberhart
7. The Question of Quality Art in Expressive Arts Therapy . . . . . . 113
Shaun McNiff
8. A Tango in the Ruins: Encounters with Beauty
in a Harm Reduction Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Sabine Silberberg
9. Stepping into Locked Space: An Algorithmic Dialogue
between Choreography and In-Patient Work. . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Rebekah Windmiller
10. The Garden of Praise and Lament: Expressive Arts
Group Psychotherapy with Trauma Survivors in Exile . . . . . . . 145
Melinda Ashley Meyer DeMott
11. Play, Art and Ritual: Working Therapeutically
with Children and their Parents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Ellen G. Levine
Part III Education
Untitled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Judy Nisenholt
CHANGE in the AIR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Elizabeth McKim
12. Aesthetic Education: Learning through the Arts . . . . . . . . . . 177
Stephen K. Levine
13. Aesthetic Responsibility in Expressive Arts: Thoughts
on Beauty, Responsibility and the New in the Education
of Expressive Arts Professionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Margo Fuchs Knill and Paolo J. Knill
14. Education on the Edge: Acts of Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Elisabeth Hösli and Peter Wanzenried
15. Art Asylum: Exploring Otherness through Play and Art-Making. . 194
Ellen G. Levine
16. Artists in Community: The Black Mountain College
and the White Mountain Graduate School . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Sally Atkins
Part IV Social and Ecological Change
Degradation and Preservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Ellen G. Levine
Cedar Fire Fragment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Judith Greer Essex
17. Community Art: Communal Art-Making to Build
a Sense of Coherence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 211
Paolo J. Knill
18. The Pulse of Humanity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 234
Carrie MacLeod
19. What Do You Care About? Arts Therapies in Support
of Civil Courage in a “World Gone Slightly Mad” . . . . . . . . . 244
Rosemary Faire
20. Why Eco-Philosophy and Expressive Arts?. . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Per Espen Stoknes
21. Nature as a Work of Art: Towards a Poietic Ecology . . . . . . . . 261
Stephen K. Levine
Part V Research
ROCK, from 4 perspectives (2004) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Kelly Lycan
AMONG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Elizabeth McKim
22. The Open Space of Art-Based Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Shaun McNiff
23. Crafting Maps, Attuning to Flesh, and Dancing the Radicant
Mobilizing the Expressive Arts and Arts-Based Research
to do a Conceptual Translation of “Science as Usual”. . . . . . . . 281
Kelly Clark/Keefe, Jessica Gilway, and Emily Miller
24. Knowing Not-Knowing: Research as an Art-Analogue Process. . . 301
Sabine Silberberg
25. Playing with Auschwitz: A Liminal Inquiry into Images of Evil . . 311
Lisa Herman
26. Per-forming Home: Spinning New Scripts for Re-Search. . . . . . 318
Cold Spell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Isabel Hayeur
Two Poems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Margo Fuchs Knill
List of Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 331
Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This volume could not exist without the contributors to all the issues
of the POIESIS journal, both those who are represented here and those
who wrote equally valuable pieces which could not be included for
lack of space. The European Graduate School, a unique educational
institution, supported the publication of the journal throughout.
The  founder and first Provost, Paolo Knill, was an enthusiastic
supporter from its inception, as was Shaun McNiff, one of the pioneers
in the field of expressive arts.
Particularly helpful throughout the years were our poetry editor
Elizabeth McKim, associate editor Shara Claire, managing editor Sarah
Farr, and production manager and art director Kristin Briggs, without
whom the journal could not have been possible.
Ellen G. Levine and Stephen K. Levine are jointly responsible for the
editing of this volume, including the articles, poems, and visual images.
We greatly regret that we could not include many other interesting
and significant contributions, but we had to respect the limits within
which this book was possible. All poiesis takes place within limits or
frames. We hope we have found enough freedom within this frame
for a meaningful work to emerge.
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