Arteterapie v souvislostech – Lhotová Marie (2018)

This complex and research-based book focuses on a detailed description of ways to work with visual creation grounded in the theoretical foundation of projective-intervention art therapy. Its aim is to highlight the closer ties of art therapy to more general psychological and psychotherapeutic findings, thus including connections especially from the field of developmental and clinical psychology. It helps answer questions such as: how do difficulties, symptoms, and the life story of the client reflect in the way they create; how can art therapy influence the client's creativity and artistic expression; what are the connections between perception and thinking in the process of visual creation and the way it is emotionally experienced. The publication thoroughly describes art therapeutic methods based on the analysis of artistic expression as part of therapeutic care, integrates them into a broader theoretical framework, and points out the possibilities of their creative use. It introduces readers to the methods of art therapeutic intervention through a detailed description of events in the art therapeutic process and elaborates on the basic artistic themes that form the core of art therapeutic practice (e.g., identity, landscape, portrait). PhDr. Ing. Marie Gabriela Lhotová, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist,…