Description
Discover the transformative power of 'Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing', a revolutionary guide to body-focused art therapy by Cornelia Elbrecht. This trade paperback, published by Random House US in 2018, is an essential resource for therapists and individuals seeking to heal from trauma through creative expression. Unlike traditional art therapy that emphasizes verbal interpretations, this innovative approach engages clients in guided drawing with closed eyes and both hands, enhancing their felt sense and allowing emotional release through intuitive movements. With 336 pages of insightful content, Elbrecht provides practical techniques to express physical pain, tension, and deep-seated emotions in a nonverbal manner. By facilitating bilateral scribbles and archetypal shapes, therapists can help clients safely navigate their traumatic experiences, working towards recovery and re-establishing emotional boundaries. This self-empowering method of sensorimotor art therapy is particularly effective for individuals coping with complex trauma, enabling them to regain control over their emotional well-being. Whether you're a mental health professional or someone looking to explore self-therapy, 'Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing' offers you a unique toolkit for healing. This book also includes 100 illustrative examples from real client sessions, making it a practical guide for your therapeutic journey. Dive into the world of trauma-informed art therapy today and start your path to healing.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781623172763
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2018
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Pages: 336
Description:
While art therapy traditionally focuses on therapeutic image-making and the cognitive or symbolic interpretation of these creations, Cornelia Elbrecht instructs readers how to facilitate the body-focused approach of guided drawing. Clients draw with both hands and eyes closed as they focus on their felt sense. Physical pain, tension, and emotions are expressed without words through bilateral scribbles. Clients then, with an almost massage-like approach, find movements that soothe their pain, discharge inner tension and emotions, and repair boundary breaches. Archetypal shapes allow therapists to safely structure the experience in a nonverbal way. Sensorimotor art therapy is a unique and self-empowering application of somatic experiencing-it is both body-focused and trauma-informed in approach-and assists clients who have experienced complex traumatic events to actively respond to overwhelming experiences until they feel less helpless and overwhelmed and are then able to repair their memories of the past. Elbrecht provides readers with the context of body-focused, trauma-informed art therapy and walks them through the thinking behind and process of guided drawing-including 100 images from client sessions that serve as helpful examples of the work.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781623172763
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2018
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Pages: 336
Description:
While art therapy traditionally focuses on therapeutic image-making and the cognitive or symbolic interpretation of these creations, Cornelia Elbrecht instructs readers how to facilitate the body-focused approach of guided drawing. Clients draw with both hands and eyes closed as they focus on their felt sense. Physical pain, tension, and emotions are expressed without words through bilateral scribbles. Clients then, with an almost massage-like approach, find movements that soothe their pain, discharge inner tension and emotions, and repair boundary breaches. Archetypal shapes allow therapists to safely structure the experience in a nonverbal way. Sensorimotor art therapy is a unique and self-empowering application of somatic experiencing-it is both body-focused and trauma-informed in approach-and assists clients who have experienced complex traumatic events to actively respond to overwhelming experiences until they feel less helpless and overwhelmed and are then able to repair their memories of the past. Elbrecht provides readers with the context of body-focused, trauma-informed art therapy and walks them through the thinking behind and process of guided drawing-including 100 images from client sessions that serve as helpful examples of the work.