Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy: Toward a Therapeutic Aesthetics -- Contents -- Introduction by Stephen K. Levine -- 1. The Philosophy of Expressive Arts Therapy: Poiesis as a Response to the World by Stephen K. Levine -- Introduction -- Therapeutic practice and the critique of modernism -- Modernity and the mind-body split -- Phenomenology and the overcoming of Cartesian dualism -- Phenomenology and existence: being-in-the-world -- World and earth: art as a setting-into-work of truth -- Poiesis as a basis for the Menschenbild of expressive arts therapy -- Poiesis, chaos and liminal experience -- Liminality in the therapeutic process -- Liminality and transitional experience -- Archetypal psychology and the imagination -- Post-modernism and a deconstructed psychology of the imagination -- Trauma and the work of art -- Aesthetics after Auschwitz -- Conclusion -- References -- 2. Foundations for a Theory of Practice by Paolo J. Knill -- PART 1: DECENTERING AND THE ALTERNATIVE EXPERIENCE OF WORLD: CONTINUITIES IN THE PRACTICE OF CHANGE AGENTS -- The rites of restoration: architecture, role and setting -- Decentering, an indispensable condition for alternative world experiences -- PART II: ENGAGING THE ARTS AND PLAY MAKES A DIFFERENCE -- What does it mean to "exercise" the arts or play in decentering, and how is it different from other decentering methods? -- Providing a range of play: Spielraum as an indispensable condition for an alternative world experience -- How do the arts provide the disciplined range of play? -- PART III: THE THEORY OF PRACTICE -- The heart of a session, the arts -- Interdisciplinary considerations (compare Knill et al. 1995) -- Intervention -- Interpretation and reflection -- Architectural considerations -- Administering the artistic process -- References.

3. The Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy: Training, Therapy and Supervision by Ellen G. Levine -- PART I: TRAINING IN THE PRACTICE OF AN AESTHETIC THERAPY -- Group painting in a training process: structuring and destructuring through the arts -- The Horny Clay: dismembering and re-membering -- Clowning as an intermodal expressive art: training therapists through clown -- Music as a way of working through conflict in a training group -- PART II: THE PRACTICE OF AN AESTHETIC THERAPY -- Farah: breaking free and separating -- Robert: playing with power -- Jack: to the rescue -- Sue and Sam: deadlock and struggle -- Playing with order and chaos: a children's play and arts therapy group -- Music as an instrument of order in chaos -- PART III: SUPERVISION OF THE PRACTICE OF AN AESTHETIC THERAPY -- Learning through the arts: group supervision of expressive arts therapy trainees -- Seeing and playing together: group supervision of a multidisciplinary training group -- Conclusion -- References -- About the Authors -- Subject Index -- Author Index.