Expressive Therapeutic Writing

Guiding Transformation and Restorative Care through Intermodal Arts, Word by Word

Krystal Leah Demaine, Tamar Reva Einstein

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781040124383
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This book brings engagement and conversation to a cross?pollination of creative and expressive writing and multi?modal art forms.

Through the lens of expressive arts therapy, the authors demonstrate how writing can reveal the unexpected that emerges from art making. The lineage of expressive arts therapy includes artful writing, poetry, associative, creative, and memoir, for example, to engage in self?discovery, growth, and restorative care. Each chapter is grounded in intermodal expressive arts with a central focus on creative and expressive writing, which is informed by movement, visual art, storytelling, music, sound, photography, and physical performance, including response art, and has writing prompts and invitations as well as playful and improvisational integrative arts writing explorations.

Creative arts therapists and expressive therapists actively searching for creative playful self?reflective writing practice will find this book a rewarding resource.

Krystal Leah Demaine, PhD, MT?BC, REAT, CTRS?C, RYT, music therapist, expressive arts therapist, and professor of expressive therapies at Endicott College, practices HEARTful healing note by note through song, story, poetry, and creative curiosity.

Tamar Reva Einstein, PhD, REAT, expressive arts therapist, poet/artist, and teacher, crosses cultural borders in Jerusalem with the arts as her mother tongue, threading writing and arts like her threaded beads and amulets.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• About the Authors
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Intermodal Arts and Writing: How One Art Fertilizes the Other
• 2 Cultivating Practice in Writing with Other Art Forms
• 3 Writing as Praising Common Things: Odes, Prayers, Hymns, Amulets, and Rituals
• 4 Writing Details: The Spine of Soulful Writing
• 5 Writing and Metaphor: Stepping Away to Get Closer
• 6 The Children’s Department: Childhood, Children’s Literature, and Striving to Write More Like Children
• 7 A Body of Writing: Writing From, On, and With the Body
• 8 Writing on the Inside and the Outside: Boxes, Masks, and Other Containers
• 9 Letters, Notes, and Handwriting
• 10 Caring and Restoring: Righting Ourselves Through Writing
• 11 All Good Things Must Come to an End: Writing, Harvesting, and Gleaning
• 12 Leftovers: Gleaning from the Scribbles in the Margins
• After-Words: A Thank-You Note to the Book
• Index