PSY 7639 - Expressive Arts Therapies

(2 units)

After exploring psychologies which integrate mind, body, spirit, and human ecology, participants will focus on expressive arts therapy as a particular philosophy grounded in the post-modern. After opening lectures on polyaesthetics with roots in shamanism, participants immerse in disciplines of visual arts, movement, music, poetry, drama from the exploration of play to the creation of works and their relationship to the author. The course attempts to address the questions “How does art-making help in the revised narrative of living?” and “What metaphors are helpful in the healing process?”