Description: By exploring the healing and restorative power of expressive arts therapies in dealing with grief and loss, this book strengthens the connection between these two fields to use in practice. Grounded in personal and professional experience, it widens our understanding of grief and highlights the ways in which expressive arts therapies can help.
Brief description: Stephen K. Levine is Professor Emeritus of Social Science at York University in Toronto, Canada, Vice-Provost and Dean of the Doctoral Program in Expressive Arts Therapy: Education, Consulting and Social Change at the European Graduate School in Switzerland, and Co-Director of ISIS Canada.
Review Quotes: A paradoxical, but unsurprising, display of how creative vitality springs forth from the most difficult conditions and inspires an embrace of life. Irene Renzenbrink presents compelling evidence of how art heals, gathered from throughout the world in an elegantly written and designed text that will persist as a hopeful guide.--Shaun McNiff, author of 'Art as Medicine', 'Art Heals', 'Imagination in Action', and many other books