Art Therapy as Cumulative Trauma Repair: Expressive Therapies Continuum, Perry's Neurosequential Model, and Using Art Therapy Techniques to Inform Perception and Imagination

This book explores the effectiveness of art therapy as treatment for cumulative trauma survivors.

Bringing together case studies, research, and the author’s clinical and personal experience, it outlines different clinical approaches as well as numerous art therapy interventions that are processed through somatic, metaverbal, and narrative means. It further aims to answer the question of “how art therapy works,” by pairing aspects of Lusebrink’s Expressive Therapies Continuum with Perry’s fou...