Oct. 22, 2024
Thank you to our amazing AATA Member Authors who shared their recent publications with us at the AATA2024 Annual Conference in Pittsburgh! If you weren’t able to attend, please join some of our authors at the Virtual Conference Meet the Authors event, Oct. 26, 5 – 5:45pm ET.
This list includes links to purchase books that we pulled with the help of the authors. We also list bookshop.org, a certified B-organization created in 2020 for socially-conscious online shoppers. By purchasing any book through bookshop.org via this link, 10% of the sale is donated to AATA.
Patricia Quinn
Art Therapy in the Treatment of Addiction and Trauma
This book examines the benefits and uses of art therapy in the treatment of addiction and trauma, highlighting its effectiveness at revealing underlying causes and relapse triggers, as well as treating co-occurring conditions that impair learning and recovery. This book also focuses on art therapy for trauma within specific populations, including incarcerated individuals, military personnel and survivors of commercial sexual exploitation.
Michelle Dean
Using Art Media in Psychotherapy: Bringing the Power of Creativity to Practice
Using Art Media in Psychotherapy makes a thoughtful and contextual argument for using graphic art materials in psychotherapy, providing historical context for art materials and their uses and incorporating them with contemporary practices and theories. Written with an analytic focus, many of the psychological references nod to Jung and post-Jungian thought with keen attention to image and to symbolic function.
Charmaine Husum
Sacred Geometry Visionary Art — Coloring Book
The Visionary Artwork within these 135 high quality printed pages are for you to explore and enjoy the calming and restorative practice within your meditation. For you to creatively express finding inner peace as you enjoy the therapeutic benefits, colouring can bring. Included are original artworks you may frame as well as outlined versions for you to explore and express your own process.
Psychedelics and Art Therapy: A Trauma-Informed Manual for Somatic Self Discovery (forthcoming)
Routledge Publishing is expecting a Spring 2025 release.
This book offers a groundbreaking and unique approach to preparing for and integrating psychedelic experiences and non-ordinary states by blending art therapy, somatic healing, transpersonal psychology, meditation, and neuroscience. Throughout history, art has helped people express the ineffable, processing what words alone cannot capture. However, in psychedelic research and therapy, it has been missed and underrepresented. This book fills this gap by promoting Art Therapy within the three stages of psychedelic therapy. Its trauma-informed, harm-reduction approach includes specific protocols for lasting life changes through clinical applications. It serves as a valuable resource for clinicians and experiencers alike.
Gretchen Miller
The Art and Art Therapy of Papermaking: Material, Methods, and Applications
The Art and Art Therapy of Papermaking provides a comprehensive collection about the contemporary practices, media, and value of hand papermaking as social engagement, art therapy, and personal voice. Divided into three parts that highlight each of these areas, contributors explore topics such as advocacy, work with survivors, community outreach, medical challenges, and how papermaking can empower creative expression, stories of change, recovery, and reclamation to address trauma, grief and loss, social action, and life experiences. Previous books have covered hand papermaking or art therapy media as stand-alone subjects; this text is the first of its kind that unites and describes the convergence of papermaking in all these forms.
Nancy Gerber
Imagination and Arts-Based Practices for Integration in Research (Developing Traditions in Qualitative Inquiry)
In this book, imaginative mental processes and arts-based practices are described and illustrated as approaches to investigating, revealing, and understanding the elusive yet essential meanings hidden in the crevices, shadows, and liminal spaces in between diverse data sets leading to integration, illumination, and synthesis.
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Sarah Balascio
Art Therapy Directives
Art Therapy Directives: An Intervention Toolbox is an all-inclusive manual of art therapy directives designed to be a comprehensive and organized resource for art therapists and other trained mental health professionals. Art therapy directives are directions for creating art and often require use of specific art media, both of which are tailored to the client’s particular need.
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Rebecca Wilkinson and Gioia Chilton
Positive Art Therapy Theory and Practice: Integrating Positive Psychology with Art Therapy
Positive Art Therapy Theory and Practice outlines a clear, systematic approach for combining positive psychology with art therapy’s capacity to mobilize client strengths; induce engagement, flow and positive emotions; transform perceptions; build healing relationships and empowering narratives; and illuminate life purpose and meaning. Woven throughout are clinical illustrations, state-of-the-art research, discussion questions, and reflections on how therapists can apply this approach to their work with clients, and their personal and professional development.
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Michael A. Franklin
Art as Contemplative Practice: Expressive Pathways to the Self
Drawing upon his personal experience as a practitioner-researcher, visual artist, and cancer survivor, Michael A. Franklin offers a rich and thought-provoking guide to art as contemplative practice. His firsthand experience and original artwork complement this extensive discussion by consulting various practice traditions including yoga, rasa and darshan experiences, imaginal intelligence, and the contemplative instincts of select early twentieth-century artists. From this synthesis, Franklin suggests that we treat art as a form of yoga and meditation with the potential to awaken deeper insight into the fundamental nature of the Self. Exercises and rubrics are included that offer accessible instruction for any artist, meditation or yoga practitioner, art educator, or art therapist.
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Kate King
The Radiant Life Project: Awaken Your Purpose, Heal Your Past, and Transform Your Future
The common problem in our society is precisely this: We are not as alright as we seem. Trauma, physical and mental illness, and disembodied value systems are at an all-time high across our communities. Additionally, issues of pervasive social justice imbalances, inequality for marginalized communities, and painfully charged political dynamics clearly demonstrate a large-scale desire for collective change and transformation. Society is waking up to a new reality without the shackles and numbness that have previously limited our potential. This book is the timely resource to support the expansive elevation humanity demands.
Elizabeth Hlavek
A Meaning-Based Approach to Art Therapy
A Meaning-Based Approach to Art Therapy contextualizes the phenomena of Holocaust artwork for the field of art therapy and uses this canon of artwork to support the inclusion of logotherapy into art therapy theory and practice.
The author expounds on a study in which she interviewed surviving Holocaust artists about how they were able to create their artworks while in Nazi captivity. Divided into three parts, the book follows the chronological order of her inquiry. It first presents theory, then research, and ends with implications for the practice of art therapy. The research chapters set out the process and results of the author’s phenomenological inquiry. They address how art making during the Holocaust allowed captive artists to bear witness, leave a legacy and retain their humanity.
Meera Rastogi and Joseph Scarce
Foundations of Art Theory and Applications
Edited by Meera Rastogi, Rachel P. Feldwisch, Michelle Pate, and Joseph Scarce
Foundations of Art Theory and Applications is an essential and comprehensive introduction to the field of art therapy that blends relevant psychological and neuroscience research, theories, and concepts and infuses cultural diversity throughout each chapter. The text includes full color photos, informative charts, and case examples and is divided into four parts beginning with the basics of art therapy knowledge and concluding with professional practices in art therapy.
Purchase via Elsevier – Use Code PSYCH30 for a 30% discount
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Joseph Scarce
Art Therapy in Response to Natural Disasters, Mass Violence, and Crises
With contributions from a range of expert voices within the field, this book explores the use of art therapy as a response to traumatic events. Offering rare insight into ways in which art therapists have responded to recent crises, this is a unique resource for art therapists looking to coordinate interventions for large-scale disaster and resulting trauma.
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Stephanie Wise
A Vortex Tale
If you’re a fan of suspense thrillers that keep you guessing until the very end, “A VORTEX TALE” is a must-read novel. S. L. Wise’s ability to blend psychological suspense, emotional depth, and captivating storytelling will keep you hooked from the first page to the last. Prepare to be enthralled by the intricate web of secrets, the exploration of human nature, and the relentless pursuit of truth of an art therapist within the confines of her mind. Brace yourself for a rollercoaster ride of suspense and intrigue that will leave you yearning for more.
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Chioma Anah
Art Therapy for Racial Trauma, Microaggressions and Inequality: Social Justice and Advocacy in Therapy Work
Confronting systemic injustices and paving the way towards a more inclusive, culturally responsive, and effective practice, Chioma Anah examines how art therapy can be used as a tool in addressing racial trauma. Delving into theories of racism and its evolution, the taxonomy of microaggressions, advocacy and intersectionality, this resource exposes the powerful structures that perpetuate daily microaggressions experienced by African Americans and how therapeutic relationship can repeat these. It shares poignant client narratives and artwork as well as insight from diverse art therapists, all men and women of color.
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Emily Nolan
Community Art Therapy: Theory and Practice
This book provides a narrative exploration of community art therapy woven from its rich practice roots, theory, the multiple ways that it can be applied in practice, and through practitioner reflections.
The applications of community art therapy are numerous, and this book provides knowledge to practitioners, guiding them in their own work and grounding their theoretical approaches. The community approaches presented in the text have been developed through careful research, strategy, and implementation.
Susan Ridley
The Expressive Use of Masks Across Cultures and Healing Arts
The Expressive Use of Masks Across Cultures and Healing Arts explores the interplay between masks and culture and their therapeutic use in the healing arts such as music, art, dance/movement, drama, play, bibliotherapy, and intermodal. Each section of the book focuses on a different context, including viewing masks through a cultural lens, masks at play, their role in identity formation (persona and alter ego), healing the wounds from negative life experiences, from the protection of medical masks to helping the healing process, and from expressions of grief to celebrating life stories.
David Gussak
The Frenzied Dance of Art and Violence
Some artists have an inclination towards violence, with art helping to mitigate or redirect their destructive energy. For others, their art helps them gain power over or make sense of violent environs. Finally, for some violent perpetrators, art simply mirrors and even perpetuates their psychopathic cycles. Through it all, The Frenzied Dance of Art and Violence explores – and seeks to understand – these interrelated paths of destruction and creation. To inform this dynamic, Dr. David E. Gussak relies on various psychological and sociological perspectives of violence and aggression. Beginning with brief psychobiographies of violent artists, such as Caravaggio, Cellini, Pollock, and Dali, and those whose work emerged from violence, such as Goya, Beckmann, Picasso, and Vann Nath, among others, Gussak illustrates a potent dual nature of art-making: as a way to mitigate violent inclinations and as a tool to regain control amidst turmoil.
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Art and Art Therapy with the Imprisoned: Re-Creating Identity
Through the author’s experiences, investigations and discussions with artists, art therapists and inmates from around the world, Art and Art Therapy with the Imprisoned: Re-Creating Identity comprehensively explores the efficacy, methods, and outcomes of art and art therapy within correctional settings.
Art on Trial: Art Therapy in Capital Murder Cases
A man kidnaps his two children, murders one, and attempts to kill the other. The prosecution seeks the death penalty, while the defense employs an unusual strategy to avoid the sentence. The defendant’s attorneys turn to more than 100 examples of his artwork, created over many years, to determine whether he was mentally ill at the time he committed the crimes. Detailing an outstanding example of the use of forensic art therapy in a capital murder case, David Gussak, an art therapist contracted by the defense to analyze the images that were to be presented as evidence, recounts his findings and his testimony in court, as well as the future implications of his work for criminal proceedings.
Jill McNutt
Art Therapy Through the Lifespan: A Collection of Case Studies
Art Therapy Through the Lifespan: A Collection of Case Studies introduces theories and models of human development highlighted by case studies written by art therapists and broken down by developmental age ranges.
Each chapter introduces vignettes written by seasoned art therapists, illuminating the clinical practice of art therapy across relevant developmental levels. Chapters cover major developmental factors through a range of theoretical perspectives, including the definition and use of art therapy, and how developmental knowledge and understanding impact art therapy practice with clients of all ages.
Patricia Gussie Klorer
Expressive Therapy with Traumatized Children
Expressive Therapy with Traumatized Children offers students in training and professionals who work with children an array of sensitive and creative ways to help even their most challenging patients. The second edition builds upon cutting-edge research in the neuroscience of trauma and art therapy to examine children’s development alongside their understanding of trauma. Including many new and revised case studies, Klorer illustrates effective treatment strategies to offer patients alternative means of expression. Klorer’s rich and highly accessible teaching voice seamlessly weaves together art therapy theory, research, and cases into an invaluable resource for students and practitioners alike.
Libby Schmanke
Art Therapy and Substance Abuse
Art therapy is an effective treatment for individuals with addictions. Working with this unique and often difficult clinical population, however, requires special therapist awareness and knowledge. This handbook provides an in-depth foundation of knowledge for art therapists working with clients with addictions.
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A Graphic Guide to Art Therapy
What are the core concepts of art therapy? What can you learn from a drawing of a bird’s nest, a collage or some scribbles? Why become an art therapist and how do you do it? What happens in the therapy room? In the style of a graphic novel, A Graphic Guide to Art Therapy answers these questions and more.
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The Life and Legacy of Robert Ault, Art Therapy Pioneer
This accessible book provides an edited and annotated compilation of selections of Robert Ault’s previously unpublished work, from presentations at psychiatric conferences to examples of his paintings and drawings.
Ault’s manuscripts for presentations, workshop protocols, and art therapy directives that are otherwise unavailable are of great value to current and future art therapists and clinicians in fields like expressive arts therapy, counseling, social work, and psychology.
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Dana Rummery
Escaping Death
By James Caplan and Dana Rummery
Inside this book you’ll find a collection of my artworks and perspectives. We all thought I was going to die, but with encouragement I was able to create again. Now I can engage in life again. My hope is that this book will be an inspiration to other patients who have limited capabilities to raise themselves out of a physiological and emotional difficulty while dealing with illness. – James A. Caplan
Dana created this book with a client during their art therapy sessions. She will have copies of the book available at AATA2024 signed by Mr. Caplan.
Mr.Caplan is donating all profit from the sale of his book to the Main Line Health Hospice Art Therapy Program in his ongoing effort to support art making at every stage of life.
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Megan Menkis
Spectacular Senses: My Sensory Processing Workbook
This workbook provides fun and engaging activities to help children and preadolescents understand their unique sensory preferences and develop coping strategies to deal with uncomfortable experiences and emotions.
Creating Calm
Bedtime can be tough for kids with sensory processing or anxiety disorders. The day’s sights, sounds, and sensations can leave them feeling overstimulated and restless. This therapeutic workbook guides you and your child toward a calm and peaceful bedtime routine.
Super Ears: My Misophonia Workbook
With colorful illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions, this workbook is perfect for kids age 4-12 who want to take charge of their sensory challenges.
Patricia Isis
Mindful Doodle Book: 75 Creative Exercises to Help you Live in the Moment
The Mindful Doodle Book: 75 Creative Exercises to Help You Live In the Moment combines the benefits of mindfulness and the intuitive expression of doodling to help you relax, find focus, and creatively express emotions through spontaneous artmaking.
Jessica Stallings
Special Interests in Art Therapy With Autistic People: A Neurodiversity-Positive Approach to Empower and Engage Participants
Introducing the Special Interest Communication Theory (SICT) Facilitative Framework, this guide will help you to support autistic clients and meet their needs through special interests and pop culture.
Turning away from a culture that has often sought to suppress autistic special interests, Stallings asks that therapists meet autistic children and adults on their own terms. Creating an autism positive environment and engaging with special interests – from video games to K-Pop – builds rapport and helps identify therapeutic goals.
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Krystal Demaine
The Roots & Rhythm of the Heart: Our Musical Connection to Identity, Spirit, and Lineage
The beat of the heart is structured, not improvised; it is a perpetual non-fleeting pulse spanning all human life until it is the last rhythm produced in our own conscious existence. Listening to the final beats of my father’s heart – his last eternal live music performance gave me a chance to reflect on the blood within me, the blood that pumps through my own heart, my roots, my lineage, my musical individuation. Bearing the deep sadness of the death of my father at the forefront with a global pandemic gripping the world, social hostility, and political divide – the heartbeat gave a new meaning, something deeper and more personal, impacting my existential inquiry on the power of music and the human condition.
Expressive Therapeutic Writing: Guiding Transformation and Restorative Care Through Intermodal Arts, Word by Word
By Krystal Leah Demaine and Tamar Reva Einstein
This book brings engagement and conversation to a cross-pollination of creative and expressive writing and multi-modal art forms. Through the lens of expressive arts therapy, the authors demonstrate how writing can reveal the unexpected that emerges from art making. The lineage of expressive arts therapy includes artful writing, poetry, associative, creative, and memoir, for example, to engage in self-discovery, growth, and restorative care.
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Christianne Strang and Juliet King
Art Therapy and the Neuroscience of Trauma
Edited by Juliet King and Christianne Strang
Art Therapy and the Neuroscience of Trauma, 2nd edition, lays out a unified framework of neural plasticity and resilience and places it within a broader social context. Using a lens grounded in multicultural humility, renowned figures in art therapy have updated chapters with content that takes a systematic yet inclusive approach. New chapters and new authors offer stimulating insights into individual and community factors that drive comprehensive care.
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Yadyra Yánez
Mi Querido Diario Arte-terapéutico
My beloved Arte-therapeutic diary is a publication that contains more than 35 exercises (in Spanish) to be applied at home or under the supervision of a health professional. Some exercises invite you to perform them accompanied by soft music and a lot of analysis.
An invitation to travel slowly and without haste along the complicated path of self-knowledge. Art invites you to explore, let yourself be and reflect, without room for criticism, but accompanied by a lot of learning. Each page is an invitation to the wonderful path of self-discovery.
The English version is soon to be released.
Stay connected with Yadyra at @maicenter and @fundacionmaipty.
Shelby Wynn
Growing Up Grounded: Learning to cope with a parent who suffers from a mental illness – An art based workbook
Has your parent or caregiver been recently diagnosed with a mental illness, or have you always felt that your home life was significantly different than your friends? First of all, don’t worry, you are not alone. Of all the adults diagnosed (or not) with a mental illness, the majority of them are parents and little to no attention is paid to their children and how this diagnosis also affects their social/ emotional development. There is very little literature, let alone a work book, made specifically for the child of a parent who suffers from mental illness! Utilizing a modified version of the Twelve Step Program, this book helps teens (and adults) work through each chapter/step at their own pace.
Hayley Wilds
100+ creative prompts to help you process your unique pregnancy loss grief experience.
If you’ve been through pregnancy loss, then you know how tough it is to find support from people who truly get it. But with this judgment-free grief journal written by an art therapist and pregnancy loss survivor, you can engage your creativity to process your grief and begin to heal.
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Judy Rubin
Approaches to Art Therapy
The third edition of Approaches to Art Therapy brings together varied theoretical approaches and provides a variety of solutions to the challenge of translating theory to technique. The third edition includes many new chapters with material on a wide variety of topics including contemplative approaches, DBT, neuroscience, and mentalization while also retaining important and timeless contributions from the pioneers of art therapy.
Child Art Therapy
Since 1978, Judith Aron Rubin’s Child Art Therapy has become the classic text for conducting art therapy with children. Twenty-five years later, the book still stands as the reference for mental health professionals who incorporate art into their practice. Now, with the publication of this fully updated and revised 25th Anniversary Edition, which includes a DVD that illustrates art therapy techniques in actual therapy settings, this pioneering guide is available to train, inform, and inspire a new generation of art therapists and those seeking to introduce art therapy into their clinical practice.
Introduction to Art Therapy: Sources & Resources
Introduction to Art Therapy: Sources and Resources, is the thoroughly updated and revised second edition of Judith Rubin’s landmark 1999 text, the first to describe the history of art in both assessment and therapy, and to clarify the differences between artists or teachers who provide “therapeutic” art activities, psychologists or social workers who request drawings, and those who are trained as art therapists to do a kind of work which is similar, but qualitatively different. This new edition contains downloadable resources with over 400 still images and 250 edited video clips for much richer illustration than is possible with figures alone; an additional chapter describing the work that art therapists do; and new material on education with updated information on standards, ethics, and informing others.
The Art of Art Therapy: What Every Art Therapist Needs to Know [With DVD]
The Art of Art Therapy is written primarily to help art therapists define and then refine a way of thinking about their work. This new edition invites the reader to first consider closely the main elements of the discipline embodied in its name: The Art Part and The Therapy Part. The interface helps readers put the two together in an integrated, artistic way, followed by chapters on Applications and Related Service. Included with this edition are downloadable resources containing two hours of chapter-related video content.
My Mom and Dad Don’t Live Together Anymore: A Drawing Book for Children of Separated or Divorced Parents
Some things are easier to say with pictures. When parents decide to separate or divorce, children need ways to sort through all the feelings, thoughts, and worries they are facing. This drawing book encourages kids to explore their inner world through both pictures and words, helping them to understand themselves and feel better during a difficult time of change. A Note for Parents discusses the impact of separation and divorce on the family, and describes the value of art therapy in coping with stressful emotions and experiences.
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Artful Therapy
Artful Therapy shows you how to use art to make a difference in therapy. Using visual imagery and art creation, you can help people with medical problems understand how they feel about their illness; victims of abuse “tell without talking”; and substance abuse and eating disorder clients tap into unresolved issues. These are just a few examples of how the power of art can improve your practice.
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