Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing: A Sensorimotor Art Therapy Approach to Bi...

Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing: A Sensorimotor Art Therapy Approach to Bi...

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Format: Paperback

A body-focused, trauma-informed art therapy that will appeal to art
therapists, somatic experiencing practitioners, bodyworkers, artists, and
mental health professionals While art therapy traditionally focuses on
therapeutic image-making and the cognitive or symbolic interpretation of these
creations, Cornelia Elbrecht instructs readers how to facilitate the body-
focused approach of guided drawing. Clients draw with both hands and eyes
closed as they focus on their felt sense. Physical pain, tension, and emotions
are expressed without words through bilateral scribbles. Clients then, with an
almost massage-like approach, find movements that soothe their pain, discharge
inner tension and emotions, and repair boundary breaches. Archetypal shapes
allow therapists to safely structure the experience in a nonverbal way.
Sensorimotor art therapy is a unique and self-empowering application of
somatic experiencing--it is both body-focused and trauma-informed in approach
--and assists clients who have experienced complex traumatic events to
actively respond to overwhelming experiences until they feel less helpless and
overwhelmed and are then able to repair their memories of the past. Elbrecht
provides readers with the context of body-focused, trauma-informed art therapy
and walks them through the thinking behind and process of guided drawing--
including 100 full-color images from client sessions that serve as helpful
examples of the work.

Details

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ North Atlantic Books; Illustrated edition (December 4, 2018)


• Language ‏ : ‎ English


• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 344 pages


• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1623172764


• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 63


• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.25 pounds


• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.99 x 0.68 x 9.96 inches


• Best Sellers Rank: #95,741 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #119 in Popular Psychology Psychotherapy #159 in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder #165 in Popular Psychology Counseling


• #119 in Popular Psychology Psychotherapy

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