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This fascinating collection of essays contains a variety of perspectives about the use of expressive arts for facilitating physical and emotional healing. Each author within brings a fresh approach and unique experiences to their writing. Within these pages, you will find many ideas for the use of the arts and can learn how to engage the inner layers of the self that allow natural healing processes of the body and soul to flourish. When we fully engage an art modality, we find ourselves in a place in our consciousness that could be called 'healingspace,' where we feel ourselves whole and re-member ourselves as well. From psychic trauma to physical illness, disease of many kinds may be addressed through the various techniques discussed here. The tools offered by some authors are population specific and age appropriate, while several authors have given us the philosophical underpinnings for it all. While the authors within represent the grassroots voices of this new and rapidly expanding field, several of them have developed their own methods for using the arts, and have thriving practices. Our approach is wholistic. Music, visual arts, movement, dance, and poetry are discussed as separate modalities and in combination with one another in a process or flow. The reader will engage in our experiences with these modalities as they have been lived. The complementary CD that accompanies this book will allows the listener to have a full sound experience of toning. If a rationale is needed for establishing arts programs in medical centers or other health facilities, it can be found here. The book offers tools for self development and for group facilitation. Those wanting to expand their healing practice through the use of the arts will find the book to be a faithful guide. Anyone wishing for a fuller understanding of how the arts may work to facilitate healing will find much food for thought within these pages
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Healing with Art and Soul Healing with Art and Soul: Engaging One’s Self through Art Modalities Edited by Kathy Luethje Healing with Art and Soul: Engaging One’s Self through Art Modalities, Edited by Kathy Luethje This book first published 2009 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 12 Back Chapman Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2XX, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2009 by Kathy Luethje and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-0209-3, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-0209-3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements .................................................................................... ix Introduction ................................................................................................ xi Foreword .................................................................................................. xix Jane Goldberg PART I: SURVEYING THE LANDSCAPE: PATHOGRAPHY TO CO-CREATION “The Art of Healing and the Science of Art” Carol Shore.................................................................................................. 2 “Healing Presence” Julie Balzer Riley ..................................................................................... 14 “The Healing Mind” Charles H. Ware ........................................................................................ 24 “Namaste” Carol Yancar.............................................................................................. 33 “Erasing the Pain” Kurt Fondriest..........................................................................................