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    Art in action : expressive arts therapy and social change / edited by Ellen G. Levine and Stephen K. Levine ; foreword by Michelle LeBaron.

    • Title:Art in action : expressive arts therapy and social change / edited by Ellen G. Levine and Stephen K. Levine ; foreword by Michelle LeBaron.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Levine, Ellen G.
      Levine, Stephen K.
    • Published/Created:London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2011.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Arts--Therapeutic use.
      Arts and society.
      Art and social action.
      Social change.
    • Medical Subjects: Art Therapy.
    • Description:240 pages : ill ; 23 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    • ISBN:9781849058209 (alk. paper)
      1849058202 (alk. paper)
    • Contents:Foreword : Eureka! Discovering Gold in a Leaden World / Michelle LeBaron

      Part I: Principles

      Art Opens to the World : Expressive Arts and Social Action / Stephen K. Levine
      From Social Change to Art Therapy and Back Again : A Memoir / Ellen Levine
      Social Activism within Expressive Arts "Therapy" : What's in a Name? / Karen Estrella
      Communal Art-making and Conflict Transformation / Paolo Knill
      From the Studio to the World : How Expressive Arts Therapy Can Help Further Social Change / Shaun McNiff

      Part II: Issues

      A Social-Critical Reading of Indigenous Women's Art : The Use of Visual Data to 'Show, ' rather than 'Tell, ' of the Intersection of Different Layers of Oppression / Ephrat Huss
      Inside-out Outside-in : Found Objects and Portable Studio / Debra Kalmanowitz and Bobby Lloyd
      From Private Pain Toward Public Speech : Poetry Therapy with Iraqi Survivors of Torture and War / Shanee Stepakoff [and others]

      Part III: Projects

      The Choreography of Absence : (In)habiting the Imagination After War / Carrie MacLeod
      Creating Space for Change : The Use of Expressive Arts with Vulnerable Children and Women Prisoners in Sub-Saharan Africa / Gloria Simoneaux
      Beauty in the Rough Places / Karen Abbs
      Art as a Gift : Expressive Arts in Bolivia / Sally Atkins
      A Black Dog on a Green Meadow : Doing Expressive Arts Therapy in Peru : Some Headlines / TAE Peru (Judith Alalu [and others])
      These Stories are Burning a Hole in my Brain : Using the Arts to Tell the Stories of the Ethiopian Jewish Immigrant Community in Israel / Vivien Marcow Speiser and Samuel Schwartz
      Afterword : The Power of Poiesis / MaryBeth Morand.
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