Publications
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Core Reading
These texts below are our foundation and classes emerge from this theoretical base. Although we expect that students will read and begin to integrate this material, classes will not always directly refer to these readings. All the recommended & core texts can be purchased at:
Caversham Booksellers 98 Harbord Street, Toronto, (One block west of Spadina Ave.) Tel: 416-944-0962 Fax: 416-944-0963 Email: info@cavershambooksellers.com Order online: http:www.cavershambooksellers.com
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About CREATE
Programs
The CREATE InstituteStudio: 468 Queen St. E. Suite LL01
Toronto, ON Canada Tel: (416) 539-9728 Fax: (416) 531-8236 admin@thecreateinstitute.org 
Ellen Levine & Stephen Levine
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Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy: Toward a Therapeutic Aesthetics
Paolo Knill, Ellen G. Levine and Stephen K. Levine Challenging traditional therapeutic approaches to the arts in which art is often secondary to a psychological model, Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy provides a coherent theoretical framework for an expressive arts therapy practice that places the process of art-making and the art work itself at the center. The authors clarify the methodology and theory of practice with a focus on intermodal therapy, crystallization theory and polyaesthetics, and give guidance on the didactics of acquiring practical skills. |
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Tending the Fire: Studies in Art, Therapy and Creativity
Ellen G. Levine This book explores the notion of creativity as an internal fire or sense of aliveness and vitality in the self. Moving from the author's own painting experience to an understanding of the emergence of creativity in the earliest mother-infant interactions, Ellen Levine brings together a theoretical understanding, drawn from psychoanaly-tic literature, with clinical material from practice as a child psychotherapist and expressive arts therapist. According to the author, using the arts in therapy is a process of fire-tending, of allowing play and experimentation to enter the therapeutic space and enliven the experience. |
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Minstrels of Soul: Intermodal Expressive Therapy
Paolo Knill, Helen Barba, Margot Fuchs A discussion of polyaesthetics, crystallization, intermodal theory, and the roles of expression and catharsis provide a theoretical foundation for understanding this creative approach to therapy. Asking the question What happens when a client's art-making is received by the therapist?, the special considerations in the practice of expressive arts therapy are summarized, including relationship as art, play, structure and framing, low-skill and high-sensitivity work, and the phenomenon of the surprising experience that comes when a therapist and client work in a creative space together. |
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Trauma, Tragedy, Therapy: The Arts and Human Suffering
Stephen K. Levine This book explores the nature of traumatic experience and the therapeutic role of the arts and arts therapies in responding to it. It suggests that by re-imagining painful and tragic experiences through art-making, we may release their fixity and negative hold on our lives and resist the temptation to assume the role of the victim. It addresses the damage done by the tendency to adopt stock methods of understanding and superficial explanations for the depths, complexities, wonders, and exasperations of human experience. The book explores the chaos and fragmentation inherent in both art and human existence and the ways in which memory and imagination can find meaning by acknowledging this chaos and embodying it in appropriate forms. Art in Action: Expressive Arts Therapy and Social Change
Ellen G. Levine and Stephen K. Levine
The authors explore the transformative power of the arts therapies in areas stricken by conflict, political unrest, poverty or natural disaster and discuss how and why expressive arts works. They look at the ways it can be used to engage community consciousness and improve social conditions whilst taking into account the issues that arise within different contexts and populations. Leading expressive arts therapy practitioners give inspiring accounts of their work, from using poetry as a tool in trauma intervention with Iraqi survivors of war and torture, to setting up storytelling workshops to aid the integration of Ethiopian Jewish immigrants in Israel. |
Order online from Jessica Kingsley Publishers