Opening the Door: Creative Arts in Recovery

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The Music Therapist: Creative Arts Therapist and Contemporary Shaman

International Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling and Psychiatry: Theory Research & Clinical Practice ◽

10.35996/1234/2/arttherapyshaman ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

Author(s):

Joseph Moreno

Keyword(s):

Native American ◽

Creative Arts ◽

Indian Culture ◽

Music Therapist ◽

Psychotherapy Practice ◽

The Arts ◽

Contemporary Psychotherapy ◽

The World ◽

Traditional Healing Practices

While much of contemporary psychotherapy practice often focuses primarily on verbal exchange between therapists and clients, it is important to recognize that verbal expression is just one mode of expression, and not necessarily the deepest or most profound. Many clients in therapy may be more comfortable in expressing themselves in other ways through the modes of music, art, dance and psychodrama. The sources of the arts in healing extend back for many thousands of years and their modern expression through the creative arts therapies are now widely utilized in the mainstream of modern psychotherapy. Traditional healing practices are still widely practiced in many indigenous cultures around the world today and an appreciation of these practices can deeply enrich our understanding of the essential role of the arts in human expression. The aim of this paper is to consider the roots of the arts therapies and really all of psychotherapy, going as far back as pre-historic evidence, followed by an overview of living indigenous healing practices in such settings as Bushman culture in Namibia, Native American Indian culture, as well as in Kenya, Bali, Malaysia, Mongolia and more.

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Arts-Based Research: Merging Social Research and the Creative Arts

The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190847388.013.27 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 600-632

Author(s):

Gioia Chilton ◽

Patricia Leavy

Keyword(s):

Social Research ◽

Mixed Media ◽

Assessment Criteria ◽

Creative Arts ◽

Arts Based Research ◽

Poetic Inquiry ◽

Public Scholarship ◽

Literary Forms ◽

The Future ◽

Methodological Principles

Arts-based research (ABR) is a rapidly growing methodological genre. Arts-based research adapts the tenets of the creative arts in social research to make that research publicly accessible, evocative, and engaged. This chapter provides a retrospective and prospective overview of the field, including a review of some of the pioneers of arts-based research, methodological principles, and robust examples of arts-based research in different artistic genres. We include literary forms such as poetic inquiry and fiction, performative forms such as playbuilding, ethnodrama, ethnotheater and film, and visual forms such as photography, collage, art journaling, and mixed media. We note researches also use multiple art forms, and evolving and innovative forms of art. We provide suggestions for (contested) assessment criteria, such as utility, aesthetics, authenticity and valuing participatory and transformative approaches. The chapter closes with our thoughts regarding the future of the field, which includes ABR’s potential to improve public scholarship.

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