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Art Therapy for Social Justice seeks to open a conversation about the cultural turn in art therapy to explore the critical intersection of social change and social justice.
List of contents
Section 1: Theoretical Framework 1. Beyond Multiculturalism and Cultural Competence: A Social Justice Vision in Art Therapy
Talwar 2. Critiquing Art Therapy: History, Science, and Representation
Talwar 3. Identity Matters: Questioning Trauma and Violence Through Art, Performance, and Social Practice
Talwar 4. Intersectional Reflexivity: Considering Identities and Accountability for Art Therapists
Talwar, Clinton, Sit, and Ospina 5. Envisioning Black Women's Consciousness in Art Therapy
Gipson Section 2: Praxis: Public Therapeutics and Art Therapy 6. "'You Want To Be Well?': Self-Care as a Black Feminist Intervention in Art Therapy"
Tillet and Tillet 7. Radical Caring and Art Therapy: Decolonizing Immigration and Gender Violence Services
Ravichandran 8. Res(Crip)ting Art Therapy: Disability Culture and Art as a Social Justice Intervention
Yi 9. "The Sweetness of Money": Creatively Empowered Women (CEW) Design Studio, Feminists Pedagogy and the Art Therapy
Talwar
About the author
Savneet K. Talwar, PhD, ATR-BC, is a
professor in the graduate art therapy program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has published articles in
Arts in Psychotherapy, Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, and
Gender Issues in Art Therapy.
Her current projects are
Wandering Uterus Project: A DIY Movement for Reproductive Justice and
CEW (Creatively Empowered Women) Design Studio, a craft, sewing, and fabrication enterprise for Bosnian and South Asian women at the Hamdard Center in Chicago. She is also the past associate editor of
Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association.
Summary
Art Therapy for Social Justice seeks to open a conversation about the cultural turn in art therapy to explore the critical intersection of social change and social justice.
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"Scholars, researchers, educators, and practicing art therapists require a new paradigm. By centralizing the voices of women and art therapists of color, Talwar complicates who art therapy is practiced by and who art therapy is for. Included are theoretical perspectives from a range of disciplines providing a foundation to move the field forward."Yasmine J. Awais, MAAT, ATR-BC, ATCS, LCAT, LPC, Assistant Clinical Professor, College of Nursing and Health Professions, Drexel University
"Talwar brings together the voices of art therapists who give shape and meaning to the ‘cultural turn’ in art therapy. Their radical intersections offer colleagues across the arts therapies a language with which to claim and encourage practices centered on social justice, self-reflexivity, care, and wellbeing."Nisha Sajnani, PhD, RDT-BCT, Associate Professor and Director, Drama Therapy Program, New York University
"Talwar’s book is timely—art therapy urgently needs to expand notions of helping beyond the therapy room. She and the contributing authors challenge traditional models of pathology and ‘art as healing,’ urge practitioners to question theories and practices that support unjust systems, and motivate the construction of new models of care that examine structures of oppression impacting those we serve. This is inspiring and passionate scholarship and some of the best writing on social justice I’ve seen."Donna Kaiser, PhD, past Executive Editor, Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association
