Preface ix
Acknowledgements xv

Part One
INTRODUCTION 1
1 Liberating Creativity 3

Part Two
ART IS SOUL'S MEDICINE 9
2 The Creative Space 15
3 Letting Go in a Safe Place 28
4 Embracing Upheaval 31
5 The Early Work, 1970–1974: Anthony, Bernice, and Christopher 34
6 The Art Therapist as Artist 52
7 Aesthetic Meditation 55

Part Three
OPENING TO IMAGES AND MEDIA 69
8 The Interpretation of Imagery 75
9 Treating Images as Persons and Dialoguing with Them 82
10 The Challenge of Disturbing Images 96
11 Images as Angels 100
12 Angels of the Wound 112
13 Artistic Auras and Their Medicines 121
14 The Effects of Different Kinds of Art Experiences 137

Part Four
TOTAL EXPRESSION 147
15 Pandora's Gifts: Using All of the Arts in Healing 151
16 A Pantheon of Creative Art Therapies 163
17 Working With Everything We Have 168
18 A Review of Jung on Active Imagination by Joan Chodorow 171

Part Five
CONNECTIONS TO SHAMANISM 181
19 From Shamanism to Art Therapy 183
20 The Shaman as Archetypal Figure 194
21 The Shaman Within 200

Part Six
REFLECTIONS ON THE SOURCE 209
22 The Basis of Energy 211
23 The Healing Powers of Imagination 221
24 Surrender to the Rhythm 230

Part Seven
USING NEW MEDIA TO EXPAND CREATIVE EXPRESSION 239
25 Video Enactment in the Expressive Therapies 243
26 A Virtual Studio 255

Part Eight
ART HEALING IS FOR EVERYONE 263
27 Art Therapy Is a Big Idea 267
28 An Inclusive Vision of Art Therapy: A Spectrum of Partnerships 271
29 The Way of Empathy: The Practice of Creativity in the Workplace 283
30 The Test of Time 290

Sources and Credits 295
Selected Publications by Shaun McNiff 299
Index 307