Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- Part I From Trauma to Tragedy -- 2 Going to the Ground -- On the foundations of expressive arts therapy -- On art and knowledge -- Theses concerning poiesis as the ground of expressive arts therapy -- On decentering and expressive arts therapy -- On trauma, memory and the arts -- On the sense of the world as the ground of the arts and arts therapies -- On the categories of aesthetics: poiesis , mimesis , catharsis -- On trauma and tragedy -- 3 Mimetic Wounds -- 4 Trauma, Therapy and the Arts -- The trauma of psychotherapy -- Trauma, mimesis and memory -- The repression of memory -- The mimesis of poiesis -- Dionysian poiesis -- Poiesis and post-modernity -- Poiesis , catharsis and the end of therapy -- Part II Chaos into Form -- 5 Order and Chaos in Therapy and the Arts -- 6 Is Order Enough? Is Chaos too Much? -- 7 The Expressive Body -- 8 The Second Coming -- 9 The Art of Despair -- 10 Researching Imagination - Imagining Research -- 11 A Fragmented Totality? -- Part III Poiesis after Post-Modernism -- 12 Poiesis and Praxis -- 13 Be Like Jacques -- 14 What Can I Say, Dear, After I Say I'm Sorry? -- References.