Art therapy and clinical neuroscience.

9781843108689

Art therapy and clinical neuroscience.

Ed. by Noah Hass-Cohen and Richard Carr.

Jessica Kingsley Pub.

2008

335 pages

$39.95

Paperback

RC489

For art therapists, counselors, mental health practitioners, and students, Hass-Cohen (psychology, marriage therapy and art therapy program, Phillips Graduate Institute) and Carr (psychoneurobiology, Phillips Graduate Institute, and psychiatry, Cleveland Chiropractic College) assemble 16 chapters that discuss research in clinical neuroscience and its application to art therapy. They explain neuroscience language and concepts and their connection to art therapy, and specific topics such as attention deficit problems, memory, and gender differences. The final section explains how neurobiology principles can be used in the practice of art therapy relating to attachment issues, medical problems, post-traumatic stress disorder, Alzheimer's disease, and stress response. Contributors are art therapy faculty, students, and alumni from Phillips Graduate Institute.

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