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The Expressive Use of Masks Across Cultures and Healing Arts explores the interplay between masks and culture and their therapeutic use in the healing arts such as music, art, dance/movement, drama, play, bibliotherapy, and intermodal.
Sommario
Part 1. Cultural Masks 1. Masks: Rites, Rituals, and Transformations 2. I Contain Multitudes: Writing, Poetic Masks and Parts of Self 3. The Leelah Play: Avatar as Mask in Trauma-Informed Dramatherapy 4. A Transformative Journey of Masks in Drama Therapy: Reversing the Sequence in Lecoq's Physical Theatre Pedagogy 5. Integrating Voice Movement Therapy and Mask Work and Why it Works
Part 2. Masks at Play 6. The Role of Mask in Cultivating Imagination and the Expression of PlayFULLness' 7. Mask Work: Increasing Imagination and Developing Self Awareness in Children: Through a False Face One Finds a True Face 8. Using Neutral Masks with Adolescents 9. Victim Empathy: Unmasking Vulnerability
Part 3. Wearing a Mask 10. Metaphors in the Mask: A Process of Exploring Personal and Professional Identities 11. Building Trust Through Mask Making in East and West Jerusalem: Developing and Exposing, Disguising and Divulging Clinically and in Phototherapy Training 12. Encountering the Mask with Undergraduate Expressive Therapies Students: Engaging Ritual, Dialogue, and Reflection 13. Working with Masks in Narradrama 14. Sexing the Mask: Explorations in Mask Making for Gender and Sexuality
Part 4. Healing the Wounds 15. Super Art Therapy 16. Painting Masks, Reflecting on Gaps: Student Veterans Explore Internal and External Realities During an Art Therapy Group 17. Healing the Wounds of War 18. Faces Behind the Masks in Times of War: First Aid of the Soul in Ukraine 19. Working with Masks in Moscow: A Trauma-Informed Group Narradrama Practice
Part 5. From Protection to Healing 20. Mask Masking as a Featured Process in a Hospital-Based Open Studio 21. The Transformation of a Radiation Mask 22. The Avatar: Masks of Hope and Healing 23. The Exploration of Using a Kintsugi-Inspired Mask Making Process in Addictive Behaviors 24. Revealing ED: Theraputic Uses of Masks in the Treatment of Eating Disorders
Part 6. Celebrating Life Stories 25. Mask as Starting Point: Usability in Crisis Sand Therapy 26. The Use of Power Masks in Processing Grief 27. Exploring Inner Emotions Using Masks with Children and Youth 28. Masks, Grief, and the Unseen Realms: The Power of the Image
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Susan Ridley, LPC, NCC, ATR-BC, REAT, associate professor of Creative Arts Therapy at West Liberty University, WV, is an artist, educator, and counselor with over 35 years' experience.
Riassunto
The Expressive Use of Masks Across Cultures and Healing Arts explores the interplay between masks and culture and their therapeutic use in the healing arts such as music, art, dance/movement, drama, play, bibliotherapy, and intermodal.
