Art Therapy Practice: Innovative Approaches with Diverse Populations

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Summary: These are student theses....
Review: I was disappointed by this book for several reasons. First, it is not well-organized in terms of content. Second, the references are mostly to student theses which are difficult to obtain for more information. In fact, the author has apparently not really written this book, she has merely strung together many other's works to make a long, tedious book. The problem is the works referred to are not from advanced professionals, but students or those just out of school. This makes for weak content and mostly repetition of basic material throughout.
The price was too much for what I thought I would get in terms of new info, so I ended up returning this book. I do like the author's book on psychotherapy; it is from 20 years ago, but has a lot of practical material on art therapy and as a counselor, I found it really helpful. Too bad this one was not up to the previous sophistication.

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Summary: disappointing content
Review: This author is an excellent writer, but unfortunately this latest book does not live up to previous volumes. The content was extremely disappointing and read like a series of student papers strung together to make a book. The text could have benefited from editing, it is laborious to read and certainly is not for those new to this field, they will find it confusing and dense. The topics are innovative, there is no argument about that and the illustrations are interesting. As a psychotherapist I was left wanting something more clear, to the point, and less laden with lengthy cases. Art Psychotherapy by this author still remains her best and classic text, I would recommend that readers interested in this field purchase that one and skip this one.