Books marked with and asterisk can be found on the reserve shelves (STLC – Short Term Loan Collection) and can only be read in the library or used to take photocopies.  Check if there are further copies available on the shelves for normal loan.  All other books are not on reserve and can be taken out of the library by any students, which may mean they are not available but can be recalled.

Recommended Reading

At least two titles should be consulted, but the Foulkes and Bion texts are considered the ‘classic texts’ about group therapy whilst others are complementary.

Group Therapy
Benson,  Jarlath F. (1967) Working more Creatively in Groups Tavistock
Bernard K. & MacKenzie R. (1994) *The Basics of Group Psychotherapy
Bion, Wilfred R. (1968) *Experiences in Groups  (Tavistock 1961)
Foulkes, S.H. (1986) *Group Analytic Psychotherapy  Karnac
Foulkes, S.H. & Anthony, E.J. (1973) Group Psychotherapy Penquin, London
Ormont, Louis R. (1992) The Group Therapy Experience: From Theory to Practice
Yalom, Irvin.D. (1970) Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy Basic Books

Art Therapy
Waller, Diana  (1993) Group Interactive Art Therapy Routledge, London
Skaife, Sally & Heut, Val (Eds.) (1999) Art Psychotherapy Groups  Routledge, London

INSCAPE:  The Journal of the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT)  (http://www.baat.co.uk/)
The American Journal of Art Therapy (http://www.arttherapy.org/)

And for group therapy…

Free Associations (a British journal of psychotherapy which has some relevant articles) (http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/rmy/fa.html)

Robert Young is the Editor of Free Associations and he has a comprehensive web site.  See http://www.human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap118h.html for a full description of group therapies.

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There is much related information in articles in education, special education and psychology journals available through computer searches on specific topics such as depression, eating disorders, schizophrenia, psychosis, autism, etc. 

Current issues of all journals are held on the Journals Carousel (just inside the main entrance to the Library) with back copies held in bound volumes on the journal shelves.

The majority of books on art therapy are concerned with the one-to-one experiences between therapist and client.  Such books give insights into the complexity of the therapeutic process.  However, it is advised that research for the module should focus on group processes with secondary reference to individual experiences to amplify the choice of a topic or focus of the essay.  Also, many books on art therapy (especially the earlier ones) take the form of collections of papers.  It is advised that sections of books are referred to rather than whole texts, which means consulting the index or subject index to find the topic/topics of interest.  (see Glossary of Mental Mechanisms)

General Reading: (from 1990 to current in alphabetical order, by author)

BARTEL Linda & NE’EMAN (1993) The Metaphoric Body:  Guide to Expressive Therapy through Images and Archetypes  (616.89165)  Part of the new move towards integrating art with drama, movement and music with links to post Jungian concepts of archetypes and their use in healing and increasing self awareness

BERTOIA Judi (1993) Drawings from a Dying Child  (155.937) Art therapy and its use as a part of palliative care which uses a case study to explore the possible responses to death and dying.

CAMPBELL, J., LIEBMANN, M., BROOKS, F., JONES, J., WARD, C. (Eds) (1999) Art Therapy, Race and Culture  London, Routledge (615.85156/Art) This book has arisen from a working group set up by BAAT to address the needs of art therapist working with people from multi-racial backgrounds and explores cultural differences.  It is a comprehensive collection of essays on practical experiences of working with diversity and explores the therapist working as a ‘cultural activist’.  Very welcome addition to contemporary issues for many therapists.

CASE Caroline & DALLEY Tessa. (Eds.) (1990) *Working with Children in Art Therapy (618.9289165) STLC +4 Working with Children – explores different situations and settings in which art therapy is used with children.  Mainly clinical and social care settings. Caroline Case, Tessa Dalley and Diana Waller are three of the founders of Art Therapy Training in the UK.  Between them they have many publications.   Diana Waller is Honorary President of BAAT, having been the Chairperson for many years and is primarily responsible for obtaining professional recognition and validation for Art Therapy Training.  She teaches at Goldsmiths College. Case and Dalley have taught for many years at St. Albans. (See also Older Books section)

Coleman, Victoria D. (1996)  Art therapy and psychotherapy: blending two therapeutic approaches London, Taylor & Francis  This book title is self explanatory and is a good introduction to people who are familiar with either approach, or what to know more about the differences and similarities in these approaches.

Jung, C. J. (Ed. Chodorow, Joan) (1997) Jung on Active Imagination: selected reading & introduction (150.1954) A new book of selected readings taken from Jung’s collective works, one of which is an illustrated case study, conducted by Jung with a patient, which describes her work whilst in therapy.  Also features papers discussing the use of mandala (circular, spiritual and  meditative works) amongst other essays.

DALLEY Tessa, RIFKIND Gabrielle, TERRY Kim (1992) Three Voices of Art Therapy  (615.85156)  An excellent first read, as this book gives details of the relationship between client and therapist, and therapist and supervisor.  This is one of the few books which gives the client/patient an opportunity to express their view on art therapy.

“You can imagine what it might be like to live with someone you don’t like.  Basically you wouldn’t do it, you would ask them to leave or even move out yourself.  But what if you can do neither, what if the person you despise and hate is yourself.”  Kim Terry 1988 Frontispiece - Three Voices

DOKTER Ditty (Ed) (1995) Arts Therapies and Clients with Eating Disorders: Fragile Board  (616.85206)  Split into sections, the art therapy section has four papers written by established therapists including Schavarien and Waller.  Focusing specifically on eating disorders, the book also gives a wide range of arts approaches.  This is a book more relevant to practicing therapists working in a multidisciplinary specialization.

HAGOOD Maralynn M. (2000) The Use of Art in Coulselling Child and Adult Survivors of Sexual Abuse (362.7044) Emphasis in this book is on the child and family experiences, for children and adults, using art in counselling for people who have been sexually abused. Some broader issues, such as false memory syndrome, are discussed in a framework that emphasises that it is the process of art-making which has therapeutic value, not the emphasis on artwork as diagnosis. Good section on developmental models of children's drawing.

HOGAN S. (Ed) (1997) Feminist Approaches to Art Therapy Routledge (615.85156)  A collection of papers that focus on current practice which takes account of feminist theory and practice.  Includes papers on phototherapy, mediation as well as theoretical examinations of art therapy’s use in gendered settings. 

HOGAN S. (2001) Healing Arts: The History of Art Therapy A new book which places the history of art therapy in a broader context of social and philosophical changes beginning with the latter part of the eighteenth century.  Hogan links psychological and anthropological sources to take a new look at symbolism, degeneration and the hierarchy of races as well as reassessing the more conventional perspectives of post war rehabilitation and surrealism.

KILLICK Katherine & SCHAVARIEN Joy (Eds) 1997  Art, Psychotherapy & Psychosis Routledge (615.85156) +2 This books deals specifically with acute mental illness and psychosis through an examination of the products of art therapy in institutional and clinical settings.  It reflects a long-standing challenge within psychiatry to the use of art therapy with this client group.  Relevant to practice in community settings which makes provision for people with severe mental illness.

LEVENS M. (1995) Eating Disorders and Magical Control of the Body: their treatment through art therapy Routledge (616.85206) +2 A short book which outlines, through practice, the main theories regarding anorexia nervosa and bulimia.  Interest in eating disorders should be combined with other texts drawn from psychology and theory.  (See also Ditty Dokter 1998)

LEVINE, Stephen K. and Levine, Ellen G. (Eds.) (1999) Foundations of Expressive Arts Therapy: Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives  Jessica Kingsley, London
"…an arts based approach to theory and practice of expressive arts therapy…. Explores individually and in relationship to each other."  Emphasis on the imagination and aesthetic experience, challenges accepted views of placing primary emphasis on cognitive and emotional dimension of mental health and development.  Part One explores theory which informs practice, part two give examples of practice in music, art, movement, drama, poetry and voicework.   Contexts range from play therapy, trauma work with Bosnian Refugees and second generation Holocaust survivors.  (Back Cover Notes)  Stephen Levine is Associate Professor of  Social Science, York University, Toronto and Director of Doctoral programmes of the European Graduate School, Switzerland.  Also author of Poiesis: The Language of Psychology and the Speech of the Soul.  Ellen G. Levine is co-director, with Stephen, of ISIS - Canada, and is a Social Worker in Mental Health of Children since 1988.  Also author of Tending the Fire: Studies in Art, Therapy and Creativity

LIEBMANN Marion R.   
1986       Art Therapy for Groups  (615.85156) +6
1990       *Art Therapy in Practice  (Ed) (615.85156) +5
1994        Art Therapy with Offenders (Ed) (615.85156) +2
1996        Arts Approaches to Conflict: Mediation (Ed) (615.8515) +1
Marian Liebmann’s work spans ten years of practice in art therapy.  A qualified probation officer and firmly rooted in the social applications of art therapy, her work moves from a handbook of exercises (1986), useful in group and settings such as education,  to the only text written specifically for prison and probation work (1994), and the use of the mediation process (1996).  Marion’s work also appears as a contributor in other collections of essays (Hogan 1997). 

MESKIMMON, Marsha (1996) The Art of Reflection: Women Artists' Self Portraiture London Routledge

McLEOD, John (1997) Narrative and Psychotherapy London, Sage Publications  McLeod’s book is not an art therapy book, but does introduce a current philosophical and contemporary view of trends in psychotherapeutic (not psychoanalytic) counseling theory.

McNIFF, Shaun
(1998) Art Based Research London, Jessica Kingsley
(1992) Art as Medicine:  Creating a Therapy of the Imagination (615.85156)
McNiff is a US pioneer of Arts Therapies training and theory.  Art Based Research book is a welcome addition to the increasingly wide range of writing about researching in the Arts Therapies as the profession continues to gain status and recognition.  Perhaps a leader in the field the book gives an account of not only McNiff’s experiences as a teacher but also expands a methodology, outlined in Art as Medicine, to a new art-based approach to researching.  The book is full of illustrative material of research approaches and suggestions for areas of research for those looking for insight for their own research project through a series of thought provoking questions.  Ideal for students of the arts interested in practice based research methodologies. “Its through others that we discover who we are.  When we learn how to step aside and watch ourselves, the other becomes an agent of transformation.  Dialogue with images is a method for expanding ego’s singular vision……Reality is an ever changing interplay and never a single, fixed position.” McNiff 92:2

Milia, Diana
(2000) Self-Multilation and Art Therapy London Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Diana Milia examines the effect of art therapy interventions with clients who harm their bodies. Her starting point is the definition of self-mutilation itself. In many cultures, self-mutilation is incorporatedin sacrificial rituals as a means of healing the whole society. Body modifications such as scarification and tattooing are used in rites of purification, healing and maturity. Self-mutilation may also be incorporated in performance art.

PAYNE Helen (1993) *Handbook of Inquiry in the Arts Therapies  (615.8515) STLC +1  Useful for those interested in researching into art therapy.  Although it deals with all form of the arts, it contains useful contact addresses and outlines methodologies suitable for researching in the field of art therapy. 

REES, Mair  (Ed) (1998) Drawing on Difference: Art Therapy with people who have learning difficulties London, Routledge.  Another collection of Art Therapy essays and of special interest for those who work with people with special needs.  As part of a series of books that are now being produced for the specialist aspects of Art Therapy, this is the first book devoted exclusively to this group.  There is an interesting section on research into this area, written by a non-art therapist, which is of general interest to those considering research in the field of art therapy.  Other sections include:  Background (Frames of reference and rationales), Art Therapy at Work (Case Studies), Allied Approaches (Arts Therapies: Music and Counselling), Professional Issues (Research and Supervision)

ROBBINS Arthur              
(1994) A Multi-Modal Approach to Creative Art Therapy Jessica Kingsley (615.85156)
(1998) Therapeutic Presence: Bridging Expression & Form  Jessica Kingsley
Multi-modal approach is a pioneering book that looks at integration of art, music, drama and dance.  Therapeutic Presence moves into broad fields and is a collection of papers including papers on puppetry and storytelling as well as discussion of the presence of the therapist in a therapeutic relationship.  Recommended chapter Wriggles, Squiggles and Words.  Robbins is professor of Art Therapy, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn

RUBIN, Judith (1984) (2nd Edition 2005) Child Art Therapy John Wiley & Sons Inc ISBN: 0471679917
Art therapy specifically directed to the needs and concerns of children has grown into a major area of psychological interest in a very few years. The original edition of Child Art Therapy was a significant contribution to the literature of this field—describing a broad range of educational and clinical settings within which to develop an understanding of a child's ideas and needs, as well as helping the child gain awareness, acceptance, liking, and control of his or her own feeling-self.

SCHAVERIEN Joy             
(1992) *The Revealing Image (615.85156)
(1995) Desire and the Female Therapist: Engendered Gazes in Psychotherapy and Art Therapy (616.891656)
Joy Schaverien completed her PhD at UCE and her first book is based on her thesis.  The second incorporates contemporary philosophy integrating Lacanian theory alongside the more conventional psychoanalytic theories.  Both books use a single detailed case study supported by other references to client’s work.     Highly recommended.

SENIOR Peter (1989) *Helping to Heal  (700.2461) STLC +1 An excellent introduction to the use of art in the community and in hospitals.  Peter Senior is the organizer/chairperson of Arts and Health, an organization devoted to the use of art in institutional settings.  Whilst this is not strictly art therapy, it is a comprehensive survey of arts practice in community settings which has as its agenda a therapeutic outcome.  Covers artists placements in health and other settings.

SILVERSTONE Liesl (1997) Art Therapy the Person Centred Way: art & the development of the Person (2^nd Ed) (615.85156)  Liesl Silverstone is a fellow of the British Association of Counseling and is founder of the Person-Centered Art Therapy Center, London where she trains art therapists.  The book is based on her teaching and is a series of exercises and ideas as well as giving an alternative rationale for person centered art as therapy in contrast to analytic art therapy within a medical model of practice, highlighting a difference between humanist counseling and psychotherapy which focuses on the unconscious.

SIMON Rita M. 
(1993) The Symbolism of Style: Art as Therapy  (615.85156) +2
(1996) Symbolic Images in Art as Therapy (615.85156)
These two books expand the theoretical framework established by Simon throughout her extensive career in art therapy.  The books both use extensive case study and illustration to support her theory.  Those interested in style and form will appreciate these theories and they are very appropriate for education and teaching.  Focusing on the image and its symbolism, Simon chooses an aesthetic approach rather than a psychoanalytic analysis. Highly recommended.

OSTER, Gerald D. (1999) (Foreword: Shirley Riley) Contemporary Art Therapy with Adolescents Jessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN: 1853026379
Art therapy provides a particularly helpful method for treating adolescents. A notoriously difficult age group to work with, teenagers often respond better to making artworks than they do to talking to adults. It is the gift of the well-trained art therapist to channel this creative impulse into therapy. Shirley Riley explores the possibilities of using art therapeutically with adolescents. She reviews current theories on adolescent development and therapy, and emphasises the primary importance of relying on the patients' own words, their social, cultural and economic background, rather than following pre-designed assessment directives too rigidly. She examines family treatment, looking at how the adolescent functions in relation to parents and siblings. The text is firmly rooted in Riley's own experience of working with this age-group, and includes detailed case studies. She also reflects on the effect upon the therapist created by close contact with this difficult, but ultimately rewarding group of clients.

THOMPSON Martina (1989) On Art and Therapy  (Reprinted 1997 with foreword) (615.85156) +2  A short book describing a personal journey and experiences of art therapist.  As an initial read, the book gives a comprehensive view of issues relating to art therapy.     

WALKER Moira (Ed.) (1995) Peta:  A Feminist Problem with Men  (616.8914) For those who know little of the range and types of therapeutic encounters, this Open University book gives an unique view of the processes involved in therapy from a variety of different perspectives.  Peta, the client, is introduced to six therapists who give a response to her own outline of her history and problems (indicated in the title).  From these responses, Peta is able to make a choice of which therapist (and therapy) she is drawn towards.  It includes a section on art therapy written by Christine Wood (who teaches at Sheffield).  Those interested should read the whole book as an explanation of different therapeutic approaches.  It is one of a series of books with different client starting points but the other books in the series are not held at the Margaret Street Library. 

WALLER Diana 
(1991) *Becoming a Profession: The History of Art Therapy  (615.85156) STLC +5
(1993) Group Interactive Art Therapy
Diana Waller’s books are foundational to art therapy.  Becoming a Profession outlines the history and development of art therapy practice in the UK and it relationship to other developments in US and Europe.  Diana Waller has also just published another book on the development of Art Therapy in Europe 1998 (on order). See also books list on group therapy

WALLER D. & GILROY (Eds) (1992) Art Therapy:  A handbook  (615.85156) STLC +1 Published shortly after Becoming a Profession, this book outlines the discourses on Art Therapy and follows the usual pattern of being a selection of papers (see older books section).

DICTIONARIES on psychoanalytic theory do not give just simple definitions but outline various theories and approaches.  Used appropriately, they should give a comprehensive background to further reading and understanding.  Use several dictionaries to clarify complex concepts.

HINSHELWOOD R.D.                         1989        A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought  (150.19570924) STLC +1
LAPLANCHE AND PONTALIS        1973        *The Language of Psychoanalysis  (150.1952) STLC +3
RYCROFT C                                          1972        A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis  (616.891703)
EVANS D                                              1996        An Introductory Dictionary of Lancanian Psychoanalysis  (150.195) +2

OLDER BOOKS: These books are reference points to the history and development of Art Therapy.  Some of them are no longer in print.

ADAMSON Edward                            1984        *Art as Healing (615.85156) +3
One of the founders of Art Therapist this British book gives an early account of the healing process of using art through one person’s account and experience of using art therapeutically

BARNES Mary (1989) Something Sacred: conversations, writings, paintings  (362.2) STLC +1
As the title indicates, this is one of the earlier books opening up discourse and discussion about art therapy

DALLEY Tessa  (Ed)                           1984        Art as Therapy  (615.85156) +3
One of the first collections of papers on art therapy.  Quite varied in its approach, you will find papers of theory, philosophy and case studies.

DALLEY Tessa & CASE Caroline (Eds)          1987        Images of Art Therapy  (6.15.85156) +3
Follow up book to the one mentioned above and very similar.

GILROY G. & DALLEY Tessa (Eds)                 1989        *Pictures at an Exhibition  (615.85156) +6
The third book of collected papers.  Similar to the other collections,  the three books trace developments and debates in art therapy over nearly a decade.

KRAMER E.                                          1971        Art as Therapy with Children  (618.9289165) +1
Originating in American practice, this early book focuses on childrens’ art and gives a broad spectrum of the uses of art therapy which could now be considered as closer to art education than art therapy.  It raises the foundational arguments regarding “What is art therapy” in relation to children’s art work.

MILNER M.                                         
1986 On not being able to paint 
1969 In the Hands of the Living God
Probably one of the best known introductory texts to art as a therapeutic experience, Marion Milner (also known as Joanna Field) has written a personal analysis of using art as a therapy from the perspective of a person frustrated with not being able to draw or paint expressively  with insight and understanding.  Milner trained with and was supervised as a psychotherapist by Donald Winnicott.  The earlier book (1969) is a case study (over 14 years) of a child/woman in therapy who was one of Winnicott’s patient’s.  Although this is a long and detailed study it is well worth reading.

NUMBERG Margaret                         
1989 Dynamically Orientated Art Therapy
1973 An Introduction to Art Therapy
Dynamic (person centered, relationship focused and humanist) and Analytic (theoretically framed in theories of the unconscious and transference) approaches to art therapy are very different.  This American text is one of the first to approach art therapy with an explanation of the differences between the two approaches as they are practiced in US and Europe.

RHYNE Janie (1984) Gestalt Art Experience  (616.891656)
In the US, Gestalt therapy became more popular and appropriate to the American Experience than the European tradition, established with Freud, of a psychoanalytic approach to art and therapy.  This book, along with the others in this section, became one of the first outlining a theoretical approach to art produced in a therapeutic setting.

WADESON Harriet (1980) Art Psychotherapy (616.89165)
One of the first books published on Art Psychotherapy distinguishing it from Art Therapy or art as therapy, which continues to be an area of discussion.

ASSOCIATED AREAS - Arts Therapies, Psychology, Drawing, etc.

BRUN B., PEDERSON E., RUNBERG M. (1993) Symbols of Soul:  Therapy and Guidance through Fairy Tales
GERSIE  A. (1996) Storymaking in Bereavement
BERMAN L. (1993) Beyond the Smile, Therapeutic Use of the Photograph
EDWARDS B. (1986) Drawing on the Artist Within  and (1982) Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
GARDNER H. (1980) Artful Scribbles
GOODNOW J. (1977) Children’s Drawings
KELLOGG R. (1970) Analysing Children’s Art
MCNAMEE & GERGEN (1992) Therapy as Social Construction
SPENCE J. (1992) Putting Myself in the Picture  and (1995) Cultural Snipings:  The Art of Transgression
WARREN B. (1996) Using the Creative Arts in Therapy

PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC THEORY
NEW BOOK:  (1998) Clinical Chaos: A therapists guide to nonlinear dynamics and therapeutic change (Edited papers)

BROWN & PEDDER (1979) *An Introduction to Psychotherapy 1979 (616.8914) STLC +5
CASEMENT P (1985) On Learning from the Patient 1985 (616.8914) +1
CHESSICK R. (1992) What Constitutes the Patient in Psychotherapy Jason Aaronson, NY (616.8914) +1
FROSH S. (1999) For and Against Psychoanalysis London, Routledge (150.159 Fro)
SEGAL H (1991)   Dream, Phantasy and Art (700.19) +1
*SEGAL J. (1991) Phantasy in Everyday Life (616.89)

The British Association of Art Therapists Register of Art Therapists is a reference document for research purposes.  It contains names and addresses of currently registered therapists listed in geographic areas (ask the Librarian for it).         

Don’t Forget There are other art therapy books in the library that do not appear on this list.   When researching in preparation of your essay, and once you have agreed a topic with your tutor, direction will be given as required.

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