1st Edition
Psychodynamic Art Therapy Practice with People on the Autistic Spectrum
Preface. Introduction. Dolphin, Frozen in Headlights: Working with Loss in Art Therapy with a Man with Asperger’s Syndrome. Ginsberg, Emptiness and Silence: Art Therapy with a Child with Autism. Wilson, A Group of Five Autistic Young Adults. Byers, Rhythm and Flow: Re-Thinking Art Therapy with an Autistic Young Man. Goldsmith, Images and Imagination: a Jungian Approach to Art Therapy with an Autistic Woman. Ashby, A Collaborative Art Therapy Approach. Jones, It is Joy to be Hidden but Disaster Not to be Found: Art Therapy with a Girl Diagnosed with Autism. Moore, Adolescence and Autonomy: Art Therapy with a Young Adult with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Conclusion.
Biography
Matt Dolphin has over 20 years' experience in social care and special education. He works with people with learning difficulties as an art therapist and visual arts lecturer and is a member of the British Association of Art Therapists.
Angela Byers is an art therapist and group psychotherapist. At present she works in the NHS as an art therapy clinician, supervisor and manager. She was also a visiting tutor at Goldsmith's College, University of London.
Alison Goldsmith worked as an art therapist in adult mental health services for some years and has taught on the MA art therapy course at the University of Hertfordshire. She has an MA in Jung and Post-Jungian Studies and is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with experience in the NHS and private practice.
Ruth E. Jones has worked with adults, children, families and organisations as an art therapist, psychotherapist, supervisor and consultant in the NHS, special education, charitable and private sectors since qualifying in the early 1990s.
