1st Edition

Memory Shaping Connections in the Arts Therapies

Edited By Marián Cao, Richard Hougham, Sarah Scoble Copyright 2025
220 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 31 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Memory is compilation of scholarly chapters by authors of global reputation in the arts therapies. This international publication reflects the theme of the 16th International Conference of the European Consortium for Arts Therapies (ECArTE), held in Vilnius, Lithuania. Questions of memory go to the very heart of our making sense of the world. This book brings together wide-ranging chapters,... Read more

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

 

Chapter 1-          Moss, memory, and the contradictory imagination

Nisha Sajnani 

 

Chapter 2-          Unlocking Memory Knots: encountering self in the multisensory art therapy process

Audra Brazauskaitė

 

Chapter 3-          Never Past: embodied memory in human and other animals.

Gabrielle Schmid

 

Chapter 4-          The Artist as Aedo: memory, absence, and materiality

Marián López Fdz. Cao

 

Chapter 5-          Visual Auto-ethnography: a transformative practice of remembering

Vera Heller

 

Chapter 6-          When I Ruled the World: adopted children’s memories of early life trauma recalled in a process of meaning making in music therapy

Joy Gravestock

 

Chapter 7-          Working with Memory: the making and breaking of personal myths

Alanah Garrard

 

Chapter 8-          Memory drawing for children who have experienced stress and/or trauma and have specific learning difficulties.

Unnur Guðrún Óttarsdóttir

 

Chapter 9-          The Lingering Memory of War: a duo-ethnographic exploration on the role of dramatherapy in revisiting and honouring the shadow of war in refugee women in Lebanon

Sara Sakhi, Farah Wardani, Dr Lina H Kreidie, Karima Anbar, HH Sheikha Intisar Al Sabah

 

 

Chapter 10-        Capture the Moment: art therapy practical training with older people with dementia

Raquel Chapin Stephenson and Eha Rüütel

 

Chapter 11-        Reflections on Implicit and Explicit Memory in Drama and Movement Therapy

 Aleka Loutsis

 

Biographies

Biography

Marián Cao is an Art Therapist and Professor of Art Education and Art Therapy at the University Complutense of Madrid, Spain. She teaches and lectures in Spain and internationally. Founder director of the Arts Therapy Masters’ programme at University Complutense of Madrid, and former director of the PhD programme on Art, Art Therapy and Social Inclusion, she has coordinated several Latinoamerican University programmes.

Richard Hougham is a Principal Lecturer at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, where he is course leader for the MA Drama and Movement Therapy programme. He is currently Chair of the Executive Board of the European Consortium for Arts Therapies Education (ECArTE) and has a particular interest in intercultural dialogues and epistemology in the international teaching of arts therapies.

Sarah Scoble is Honorary President of ECArTE. She served on the Executive Board of ECArTE for many years and was Chair from 2009 to 2017. Founder trainer in southwest UK in Dramatherapy and former director of Masters in Dramatherapy programmes, University of Exeter, she is Series Editor with Diane Waller for an annual International Research in the Arts Therapies publication with Routledge, in association with ECArTE and the International Centre for Research in Arts Therapies (ICRA).