The Book

Art Therapy the Person-centred way
Art and the Development of the Person
2nd Edition
Foreword by Brian Thorne

Reviews

'I would recommend this very interesting and forthright book to anyone who is interested in developments in person-centred therapy or in thinking about the use of the art as a therapeutic tool in a person-centred counselling context.'

-Counselling

'....a study of an exceptional student-centred facilitator at work'

-Counselling News

'....The book provides a fascinating glimpse into the person-centred approach to counselling and art therapy ... this is a book which almost demands to be read from cover to cover, not randomly dipped into - Art Therapy - The Person-Centred Way does repay the time and attention given to it. Prior to reading Art Therapy - The Person-Centred Way I do not believe I had fully appreciated the core beliefs underpinning the person-centred model or, indeed, how challenging, in some respects, these are to my own psychodynamically informed ones.'

-Inscape

'....This book provides valuable reading for a whole range of professionals working with people. It is informative, stimulating, creative and thoroughly readable. It offers a huge number of useful and practical ideas for all who are involved in counselling - practitioners, students, tutors, and counselling supervisors. I recommend it.

-Val Davies

Art Therapy - The Person-Centred Way is an enlarged edition of the first book published on person-centred art therapy, and includes many more exercises and ideas. Liesl Silverstone argues that we need to engage both our verbal and non-verbal intelligence, both our thinking and our intuitive mode of knowing, to become integrated. She demonstrates that by bringing the person-centred facilitative approach to images expressed in art form, healing and growth can occur at every level of development.

To illustrate the effectiveness of this process, the book chronicles twelve students as they make their way through a year's person-centred art therapy skills course, sharing their step-by-step difficulties and successes in becoming person-centred, learning from their images, and applying person-centred art therapy skills in their diverse work settings.

The process, based on self-discovered learning, negotiated decision-making, self/peer assessment and certificating, demonstrates the collective aspect of the person-centred approach in action. This radical model can be transposed to a wide range of settings.

With its many exercises and illustrations, refreshing ideas, and wide scope of application, this book is a rich resource manual and a must for everyone - both in training and in practice - involved with human development.

' An effective course in person-centred art therapy based on the philosophy which empowers the person and helps make them more self-directed'

-Carl Rogers

Liesl Silverstone is a Fellow of the British Association of Counselling & Psychotherapy. She has been a tutor, counsellor and art therapist for many years, and was the founder of the Person-centred Art Therapy Centre, London.

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley, 116 Pentonvile Road, London, N1 9JB
Tel: +44(0)208 7833 2307
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Web site: www.jkp.com
ISBN 1 85302 481 3 pb:£17.95
1997 304 pages