Art, Play, And Narrative Therapy: Using Metaphor To Enrich Your Clinical Practice

Art, Play, and Narrative Therapy Art, Play, and Narrative Therapy shows mental health professionals how the blending of expressive arts, psychotherapy, and metaphorical communication can both support and enhance clinical practice. This book illuminates the ways in which metaphorical representations form who we are, how we interact, and how we understand our larger environment. Author Lisa Moschini explains how to couple clients’ words, language, stories, and artwork with treatment interventions that aid empathic understanding, promote a collaborative alliance, and encourage conflict resolution. Chapters include numerous illustrations, exercises, and examples that give clinicians inspiration for both theoretical and practical interventions. Lisa B. Moschini, LMFT, is the vice president and clinical director of Sanctuary Centers of Santa Barbara. She has been providing workshops, lectures, and training to therapists and educators since 1996. Her first book, Drawing the Line: Art Therapy with the Difficult Client (2004) has been translated into three languages. Art, Play, and Narrative Therapy Using Metaphor to Enrich Your Clinical Practice Lisa B. Moschini First published 2019 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business  2019 Lisa B. Moschini The right of Lisa B. Moschini to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Moschini, Lisa B., author. Title: Art, play, and narrative therapy : using metaphor to enrich your clinical practice / Lisa B. Moschini. Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. Identifiers: LCCN 2018005387| ISBN 9780815371267 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780815371274 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781351170925 (e-book) Subjects: | MESH: Art Therapy—methods | Play Therapy--methods | Narrative Therapy—methods Classification: LCC RC489.A7 | NLM WM 450.5.A8 | DDC 616.89/1656—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018005387 ISBN: 978-0-8153-7126-7 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-8153-7127-4 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-351-17092-5 (ebk) Typeset in Minion by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon, UK Contents List of Illustrations vii List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xii Introduction xiii I First and Foremost 1 1 A Personal Metaphor 3 It’s Not the Heat, It’