EXPRESSIVE THERAPIES Expressive Therapies Edited by CATHY A. MALCHIODI Foreword by Shaun McNiff THE GUILFORD PRESS New York London © 2005 The Guilford Press A Division of Guilford Publications, Inc. 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012 www.guilford.com All rights reserved Paperback edition 2007 No part of this book may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher. Printed in the United States of America This book is printed on acid-free paper. Last digit is print number:98765432 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Expressive therapies / edited by Cathy A. Malchiodi ; foreword by Shaun McNiff. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-10: 1-59385-087-5 ISBN-13: 978-1-59385-087-6 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 1-59385-379-3 ISBN-13: 978-1-59385-379-2 (paperback) 1. Arts—Therapeutic use. I. Malchiodi, Cathy A. RC489.A72E975 2005 615.8¢5156—dc22 2004019048 About the Editor About the Editor Cathy A. Malchiodi, ATR, LPCC, CPAT, is a licensed clinical mental health counselor, art therapist, and expressive arts therapist, and is also a faculty member at the National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children. She has more than 20 years of clinical experience in working with people of all ages and has worked as an art therapist with survivors of traumatic experiences, including domestic violence, physical and sex- ual abuse, disaster, and serious or life-threatening illnesses. Ms. Malchiodi is a frequent presenter on art and health care throughout the United States, Canada, Asia, and Europe, and has given more than 200 invited presentations. She is the only person to have received all three of the American Art Therapy Association’s highest honors: Distinguished Ser- vice Award (1991), Clinician Award (2000), and Honorary Life Member Award (2002). The author or editor of numerous books, including The Art Therapy Sourcebook, Understanding Children’s Drawings, and the Handbook of Art Therapy, she has also published over 70 peer-reviewed papers on the use of art therapy and arts medicine with trauma survi- vors, survivors of child physical and sexual abuse, people with psychiat- ric disorders, and those with physical illness. v Contributors Contributors Emily DeFrance, PhD, RPT-S, is Associate Professor in the Counseling Pro- gram at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. She has also been a psychologist in private practice in Houston, Texas, for over 25 years. Dr. DeFrance has used play therapy with children of all ages, from a pre- dominantly psychodynamic background, informed by humanistic theory. She also teaches two courses in play therapy and supervises play therapy in- terns through the university as well as in her private practice. She has been a presenter at the national level, and has been active in the Texas Association for Play Therapy as a member of the board of directors and in the Associa- tion for Play Therapy. Karen Estrella, ATR-BC, MT-BC, LMHC, has been teaching expressive therapies at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1990. Ms. Estrella has over 20 years of experience practicing expressive therapies and mental health counseling, primarily in community-based mental health pro- grams with a variety of clinical populations. She is also pursuing a PhD in clinical psychology at the Fielding Graduate Institute, where she integrates more traditional approaches to psychotherapy with expressive therapy and intermodal techniques. She is writing her dissertation on issues of social class identity and the psychotherapy supervisor, and has a particular interest in multicultural issues in therapy. In addition to teaching, she has a private practice in which she does counseling and psychotherapy, expressive arts therapy, and supervision. Michele Forinash, DA, MT-BC, LMHC, is Associate Professor and coordi- nator of the music therapy specialization in the Division of Expressive Ther- apies at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Currently president vi Contributors vii of the American Music Therapy Association, Dr. Forinash is the editor of Music Therapy Supervision and coeditor of Educators, Therapists, and Art- ists on Reflective Practice. She has also published several articles and chap- ters on qualitative research in music therapy and is the North American editor for the online international music therapy journal Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy (www.voices.no). Kenneth Gorelick, MD, RPT, a psychiatrist in private practice and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at George Washington University School of Medi- cine, has had experience as a clinician, a teacher, and an activist. He trained under Arleen Hynes at St. Elizabeths Hospital, where he worked with pa- tients coping with schizophrenia and affective illnesses. Dr. Gorelick also served two terms as president of the National Association for Poetry Ther- apy (NAPT), was founding copresident of the NAPT Foundation, and served many years on the board of the National Federation for Biblio/ PoetryTherapy. He has given workshops nationally and internationally in Russia, Turkey, and Italy. Linda E. Homeyer, PhD, LPC, NCC, RPT-S, Associate Professor in the Pro- fessional Counseling Program at Texas State University–San Marcos, devel- oped the play therapy training program at Texas State, including the first play therapy course available by distance learning. She is a frequent pre- senter at professional conferences and training throughout the United States and internationally. Dr. Homeyer is currently on the Association for Play Therapy’s board of directors. She is coauthor of Play Therapy with Children’s Problems, The World of Play Therapy Literature, as well as vari- ous chapters and journal articles, and coeditor (with Daniel S. Sweeney) of The Handbook of Group Play Therapy. She maintains a private practice in San Marcos, Texas. Robert J. Landy, PhD, RDT/BCT, is Professor of Educational Theatre and the founder and director of the Drama Therapy Program at New York Uni- versity, where he was a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Medal. He has published numerous scholarly articles. His books include Handbook of Educational Drama and Theatre; Drama Therapy: Concepts, Theories and Practices; Persona and Performance: The Meaning of Role in Drama, Ther- apy, and Everyday Life; Essays in Drama Therapy: The Double Life; New Essays in Drama Therapy: Unfinished Business; and How We See God and Why It Matters. Dr. Landy is also a theatre artist whose musical play God Lives in Glass was recently produced at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York City. viii Contributors Susan T. Loman, MA, ADTR, NCC, is the director of the Dance/Movement Therapy Program and associate chairperson, Department of Applied Psy- chology, Antioch New England Graduate School. She served as the chair of the education committee for the American Dance Therapy Association and is on the editorial board of The Arts in Psychotherapy. Ms. Loman directed the Creative Art Therapy Department at Billings Hospital’s psychiatric unit; worked with infants, toddlers, and parents at the Center for Parents and Children; and worked with adults at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital. A Kestenberg Movement Profile (KMP) analyst, she worked closely with Ju- dith Kestenberg for 8 years, chaired four conferences on the KMP, and has written numerous articles and coedited three books, including The Mean- ing of Movement: Developmental and Clinical Perspectives of the Kestenberg Movement Profile. She currently teaches the KMP system at Antioch New England Graduate School and taught the system at the Laban/ Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies in New York City for 14 years. She has lectured and conducted KMP workshops in Germany, England, It- aly, Argentina, and the Netherlands, as well as throughout the United States. Cathy A. Malchiodi (see “About the Editor”). Daniel S. Sweeney, PhD, LPC, LMFT, RPT-S, Associate Professor and Clini- cal Director in the Graduate Department of Counseling at George Fox Uni- versity (GFU) in Portland, Oregon, is the director of the Northwest Center for Play Therapy Studies at GFU. He also has a private practice and has extensive experience in working with children, couples, and families. Dr. Sweeney has presented at many national and international conferences on the topics of play, filial, and sandtray therapy. He has numerous publica- tions on child and family counseling, and is an author or coauthor of several books, including Play Therapy Interventions with Children’s Problems, Counseling Children through the World of Play, and Sandtray Therapy: A Practical Manual, and coeditor (with Linda E. Homeyer) of The Handbook of Group Play Therapy. His books have been translated into Russian, French, and Mandarin. Foreword Foreword As a long-standing advocate for collaboration among all of the arts in therapy, it is reassuring to see Cathy Malchiodi, art therapy’s pre- eminent editor and one of its most distinguished authors, committing herself to this vision and bringing it to a larger community of therapists. In compiling Expressive Therapies, Malchiodi has stepped across the lines of specialization and reached out to leading authors in sister disci- plines to affirm the creative space that unites every form of expressive therapy. All of the arts therapies, and the practices of play therapy and sandplay therapy that are also presented in this book, share features