Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (Puerto Rico), 2008. / Adviser: Dennis Paris Alicea. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2003. / Advisor: Dr. Marcia L. Rosal, Florida State University, College of Visual Arts and Dance, Dept. of Art Education. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Jan. 31, 2005). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.Ed.)--Acadia University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 160-166). Also available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wyoming, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. S.)--Florida State University, 2005. / Advisor: Dr. Marcia Rosal, Florida State University, School of Visual Arts and Dance, Dept. of Art Education. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 14, 2005). Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 95 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2005. / Advisor: Dr. Marcia Rosal, Florida State University, School of Visual Arts and Dance, Dept. of Art Education. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 29, 2005). Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 170 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2009. / A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the field of Art Therapy. Includes bibliographies.

The overall aim of this thesis is to explore the process of working with the Edwards claywork method with a psychotherapy client who had significant relational difficulties and feared being exposed as defective. Within this there are particular aims: Firstly, to investigate whether the distancing that art therapy can create, can help the client with relational difficulties to tolerate unexpressed disavowed feelings, in particular her sense of shame about being exposed as defective; and secondly, to examine whether material evoked through the claywork process can assist in furthering the psychological formulation of this kind of client. The research was a phenomenological-hermeneutic case study of a psychotherapy client, called Kim. Kim’s experience of therapy, including two claywork sessions, was documented. This comprises a thematic narrative of her therapy process prior to the claywork process, as well as a thematic narrative focusing on the two claywork sessions. Her clay sculpture was photographed and alphabetically labeled according to the chronological order in which she made the eight pieces comprising her sculpture. A hermeneutic reading of the narratives was conducted using theoretical perspectives including object relations, Adlerian psychology and art therapy. It was concluded that, firstly, the distancing that art therapy can create does help the client, who is afraid of being exposed as defective, to tolerate previously disavowed and unexpressed feelings; and secondly, art therapy such as the Edwards claywork method, does deepen psychological formulation of the client’s affective and relational difficulties. However, although the image may graphically symbolize unconscious aspects of a client’s psyche, the present study illustrates that a client may not always be able to enter into a relationship with the image or dialogue between conscious and unconscious states. In this respect, the present study focuses on aspects of art therapy of which there is limited literature.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-01T17:54:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-07-14. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2016-04-01T18:00:15Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000859839.pdf: 5513149 bytes, checksum: 22f5b21881597468cecd6e2e0e327aaf (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A dissertação descreve a articulação e o processo criativo de experiências em arte terapia fundamentadas pelo método transdisciplinar de abordagem do conhecimento, dialogando com a arte à luz do conceito de hibridismo (Valente, 2008), com a epistemologia da complexidade (Morin, 1998) e com a psicologia arquetípica (Hillman, 2010). Apresenta o histórico da Arte Terapia no Brasil com o intuito de refletir e discutir sobre a promoção da Inclusão Social ou acessibilidade através de experiências artísticas colaborativas. Tem como base o Projeto Piloto do coletivo de artistas - arte terapeutas ACATE - Atelier Compartilhado de Artes e Terapias Expressivas, idealizador da parceria que se estabeleceu entre alunos de especialização em Arte Terapia / Terapias Expressivas do IA - Instituto de Artes UNESP Universidade Estadual Paulista com graduandos em Artes e docentes da referida Universidade para a implantação do Projeto de Extensão Universitária ArtInclusiva no campus do IA da UNESP, de março de 2011 até março de 2013, além de outras experiências da autora em arte terapia com foco no trabalho com grupos.Visa também promover problematizações e pesquisas por meio da questão central: A arte terapia pode ter objetivos artísticos?O presente trabalho justifica-se pelos excelentes resultados alcançados na facilitação do acesso à arte, à educação, à promoção do desenvolvimento humano e pelas transformações psíquicas em todos os envolvidos. A proposta revelou-se um importante espaço de formação de profissionais e pesquisas contemporâneas, promovendo competências nos colaboradores e na comunidade; uma oferta única e diferenciada por meio da equipe de trabalho e da estrutura que o IA-UNESP disponibiliza e que pelos seus importantes resultados alcançados merece ser documentada para ilustrar ou servir como referência de uma iniciativa transdisciplinar para a produção de um pr / This dissertation describes the articulation and the creative process of experiences in art therapy based on transdisciplinary method of knowledge approach, making connections with art in the light of the concept of hybridity (Valente, 2008), with the epistemology of complexity (Morin, 1998) and with the archetypal psychology (Hillman, 2010). The research presents the history of Art Therapy in Brazil to reflect and discuss about the promotion of Social Inclusion through the art (collaborative experiences). The basis of this work comes from the art group ACATE - Atelier Compartilhado de Artes e Terapias Expressivas, which has been born from a partnership between the students of specialization program in Art Therapy/ Expressive Therapies of UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista with art students and professors of the same university to create the University Extension Project ArtInclusiva from 2011 March to 2013 March, besides other experiences of the author with art therapy focusing in group works. It also intends to promote reflections and searches through a central question: Can art therapy have art goals? This work is totally justified considering the excellent results in terms of making easily the access to art issues, art education, the promotion of human development and also the psychological changes in all the people involved with the project. The proposal proved to be an important space to train professionals, promoting skills in the people involved with the project; and unique and different proposal with work group and all the facilities available at IA - UNESP. For all this reasons, it deserves to be documented to show or guide transdisciplinary initiatives to create artistic hybrid process or procedure.

This study aimed to investigate the use of expressive art as a manifestation of the unconscious psyche and as an indication of underlying personality dynamics. Its use as a significant medium for therapeutic encounter and exploration was investigated by analysing the art produced by four psychiatric in-patients during their participation in an eight-week art therapy programme. Each patient's art series was qualitatively and thematically interpreted with a focus upon the meaning of significant recurring images and motifs. The results of this study indicate that the particularity of each patient's graphic imagery enabled the lived experience of their struggles and preoccupations to emerge as uniquely different. Through their art productions they revealed the nature of their inner worlds and the power of their thoughts, feelings and experiences.