29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
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important contribution to the field, July 21, 1999
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This review is from: Introduction to Art Therapy: Sources & Resources (Basic Principles Into Practice Series) (Hardcover)
As a practitioner and graduate teacher of Art Therapy, I was very impressed and excited to read this text. This book is a thorough, well-organized, clearly written volume. I am currently teaching, "Introduction to Art Therapy" for the Masters in Art Therapy program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. My students have remarked that the book has been very helpful to their understanding and appreciation of Art Therapy. In addition to all its other attributes, one of its primary benefits is the most thorough and up-to-date literature review of the field that in my experience exists. Ms. Rubin's reasearch abilities are obviously great and she has demonstrated enormous skill in synthesizing, in a clear and easily accessible form, a great wealth of material on the history, practice, technique, usefulness, and definition of the profession. Ms. Rubin has provided an invaluable resource for the profession by writing this book and it has enhanced my ongoing respect and admiration for this and her many contributions to our field.
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21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
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Book didn't sell me on art therapy, January 21, 2000
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This review is from: Introduction to Art Therapy: Sources & Resources (Basic Principles Into Practice Series) (Hardcover)
The author may be a good writer, but this book did not sell me on the idea of art therapy. I read it and still wondered, what is art therapy? I agree with the first reviewer who said it is a great reference listing. But I enjoyed The Art Therapy Sourcebook more and would recommend that book if you want to know more about art therapy. It gave me a better idea of what art therapy is and how it is done.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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FINALLY, THE BOOK WE NEED AND WANT, July 8, 2002
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This review is from: Introduction to Art Therapy: Sources & Resources (Basic Principles Into Practice Series) (Hardcover)
Being an old-timer in the field, I need no "introduction". But this book I find I both NEED and WANT.
I NEED it because it explains art therapy to the general public and students in the field better than any other book I know. I wish it had been around for the last 30 years when I was teaching graduate students in a dozen schools around the country. It brings the field to life!
I know of no other book that documents so much information about art therapy. Nobody I know has such a command of the source material in the field.
I WANT it for an assortment of reasons.
For one thing, it is never dry or ponderous - as its vast scholarship might suggest. She writes conversationally, making even the most complex ideas easily accessible to the lay person, the prospective or beginning student...charming and delighting old-timers like me.
Her format of small subject headings and bold type to emphasize essentials makes it easy to skim and shortcut. This beomes, then, a useful SOURCE BOOK for those trying to get a quick overview of the field.
She attributes ideas and writings widely, to everyone in the field who has made contributions. This is a GENEROUS book.
She is modest, witty and very proactical too. Fo those considering entering the field, here is an HONEST PICTURE of what problems as well as rewards are in store.
Who should read it? First off, people who want to know more about the field as well as students. And for people like me, or practitioners already working as art therapists, this is the book we need to have in our libraries.
Also I think it should be in counselors' offices in every art school, high school and especially college in the country. People don't know a great deal about this field, and school counselors will find no better SOURCE BOOK to help their students.
Interested practitioners in other fields will find useful chapters on Assessment, various Approaches, and the work going on with a variety of people in many different places: medical fields, crisis work, community institutions, and so on. It also discusses multimodality approaches (e.g. music, dance, drama & art).
Here are vivid stories and photos showing us how art therapy ACTUALLY WORKS.
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