Table of Contents
Foreword Stephen K. Levine 11
Acknowledgements 21
Prologue 23
1 Historical and Theoretical Milestones: On the Shoulders of Giants 27
2 Historical and Theoretical Milestones: Paradigm Shifts and New Directions 49
3 The Evolution of Expressive Arts Therapy 69
4 The Healing Power of an Expressive Arts Approach 93
5 So Many Little Dyings: Working Across the Spectrum of Loss 117
6 Illuminating Loss and Grief through Poetry, Metaphor, and Story 137
7 To Leave is to Die a Little: Loss of Home and Place 155
8 On Death and Dying: "The Wilder Shore of Illness 173
9 Creative Responses to Disaster 195
10 Repairing the World 217
Epilogue 231
References 235
Subject Index 255
Author Index 259
List of Figures
Figure P.1 Fluttering on Fences (Irene Renzenbrink) 23
Figure 4.1 Mended Heart collage (Irene Renzenbrink, 2017): 'Take your broken heart, make it into art' 93
Figure 4.2 Dorota's Golden Lady 95
Figure 4.3 The Shape of Caring (image of ceramic art, courtesy of M. O'Toole) 100
Figure 4.4 The Pain (Nicola Sherwin-Roller) 107
Figure 4.5 A Healing Symbol (Nicola Sherwin-Roller) 108
Figure 4.6 The Pain and the Healing Symbol combined (Nicola Sherwin-Roller) 109
Figure 4.7 Cartoon (Pham Thanh Tarn, 1966) 110
Figure 5.1 Dementia, E.gress, videostill (Marie Brett and Kevin O'Shanahan, 2013) 128
Figure 8.1 What Remains, charcoal on paper (Margaret Ambridge in Winter, 2017) 194
Figure 9.1 Broken Hearts cartoon (reproduced with kind permission of Michael Leunig) 195
Figure 9.2 Christchurch Cathedral (Sarah-Alice Miles) 199